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Here, Quirkie asked quite puzzled why the page history did not reflect his edit reverting this vandalism. When I got to the page, the vandalism was gone, but the edit history did not reflect who had removed it. So, I thought that the page history entry needed purging, did so, and nothing worked. So, I tried doing a rollback/self-rollback cycle (as a null edit), but the first rollback did not do anything according to the diff function (or it actally reverted a version before the vandalism to the vandalism itself), and then made the vandalism reappear! I then was unable to rollback myself, for a reason I can't understand, then I had to eventually fix everything by hand. Are the database slaves out of sync again? Or what's going on? Tito xd( ?!?) 20:30, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Template:doi does not work if the parameter contains some characters. Can somebody look into it to try and figure something? See Template talk:doi for details and examples. Circeus 14:50, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello! My Talk page seems to be losing conversation threads. They appear in the history but not on the page and still do not appear when I either rollback to their first appearance or try to cut-and-paste in to the current revision. This is happening through Firefox (latest release) and IE6 on a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine with the latest patches, if that makes any difference. Please try to answer this on my Talk page! (aeropagitica) (talk) 10:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to copy a couple of articles (some deleted), complete with their edit histories, to a user space for reference. How can I do so? I see how to move, but not how to copy so that the original version isn't affected. I'm an admin, so I have access to the deleted pages. - Will Beback 09:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Someone started an article with title "Alexander Kirillov Jnr". This is not common English usage; better would be "Alexander Kirillov Jr" (well, punctuation would be appropriate ...). How should one edit a title --- keeping in mind the need to keep indices and cross-references elsewhere correct? (For example, this article is referred to in the article "Alexander Kirillov" (Junior's father).) -- DaveRusin 00:58, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
1937 Ordnance Survey map of Edmund Street
When I link to this Image:Edmund Street strip map 1937.png using //Image:Edmund Street strip map 1937.png|centre|thumb|300px|1937 Ordnance Survey map of Edmund Street// (brackets for slashes) in an article, all I get is a few black and white dots one or two pixels high. It is a somewhat wide image in 2-bit monochrome, produced withn Paint Shop Pro V7. Is the image corrupt? (it shows fine on its Image page). Can I use this technique for large width/small pixel depth images? Thanks Oosoom Talk to me 14:29, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Need an Eye Doc?
-Behzad
In the last day or two Wikipedia has started displaying dates in article histories in the form:
2006-08-04T10:34:19
instead of the usual ISO format:
2006-08-04 10:34:19
How can I revert it back to the original format? There is no option for this on the user preferences page. -- ozzmosis 00:46, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Is it just me, or have all the links in Wikipedia suddenly become underlined? Joziboy 18:18, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Ah okay, thanks :) The lines are gone, and it looks so much better. Thanks guys Joziboy 18:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Links have just started underling - without me changing my preferences. I've looked in preferences, and there isn't an option to stop them underlining - what do I do? Some pages are almost unreadable now :( -- DuncanHill 23:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Well, I don't know what happened or who did it, but they seem to have stopped underlining again, so thank you to whoever fixed it! -- DuncanHill 23:36, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
@import "/?title=MediaWiki:Monobook.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css&smaxage=2678400"; @import "/?title=-&action=raw&gen=css&maxage=some number&ts=some timestamp"; @import "/?title=User:Yournick/monobook.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css";
The other day, on a lark, I print preveiwed an article. To my dismay the navigational template at the bottom of the article would, if printed, take up about half a page or more. So, that got me thinking, can there be a css class for purely navigational templates that would make them not print? Sort of like using "display:none;" for viewing in the browser. I know css, but not that side of it. - LA @ 06:19, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
The information on the Wikipedia Front Page is organized into Blocks, which in turn display different colors.
I would appreciate it very much if someone here could please throw me some linkage to a place where I can learn how to develop blocks for my own MediaWiki wiki.
Thanks, and have a wonderful evening! :) Jake Ben Delbek 03:51, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
I have written several technical definitions for Wikipedia. Insofar as I can tell, they have not been attacked for being controversial. However, when I do search a controversial topic, as indicated by the warning stripe across the top of the article, I find differing opinions obliterating one another on a regular basis. Religion and politics appear to be most prone to this.
So my suggestion is, instead of obliterating the text, leave the differing opinions stand, side by side, as it were, and highlight in differing type face or color those sections that would have been obliterated by the new editor. That way, anyone doing research on a given topic will have access to all differing opinions on the subject.
-- Plastechie 16:41, 5 August 2006 (UTC)plastechie
Hey, there's a special page of what links (to) here.
How about a "What links from here"?
Is it available? If not, can we create one?--
Wai Wai (
talk) 07:55, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Since access logging isn't available, could someone please publish a list of the 1000 or 5000 most-watched articles? This is perhaps more meaningful for some questions. 71.132.136.162 03:09, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
No answer after a couple of weeks; so the question is now at Wikipedia talk:Statistics#Most watched articles. LossIsNotMore 00:08, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
The most watched might be the least vulnerable to vandalism(?) 171.66.111.20 05:28, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
How do you add "Coordinates" to an article...like the top right of Duke University? Also, how do you add the audio file up there? Thanks! Lasallefan 12:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Can you take me through how to add that to another university? I see an audio icon on the top right of some articles. Is that an audio file of the article?
Is it possible for the "Pages transcluded onto this page" list that appears below the editing textbox to show the hierachy of transclusions as well? Currently, if page A is transcluded onto page B, which is in turn transcluded onto page C, the "pages transcluded" list that appears when page C is edited would be:
A list that showed the transclusion hierachy would look like:
This would be useful, for example, in finding pages mistakenly dumped into CAT:CSD because a page transcluded onto them was speedy deleted. It is also more intuitive. Kimchi.sg 09:47, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
A few moments ago, Wikipedia sent me a page with all the links underlined, and it seemed like the formatting was off. A few moments letter, I reload the same page, everything seems normal again. Odd.. -- Alecmconroy 09:00, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
{{ dynamic link of Article A#See also}}
Is it possible?-- Wai Wai ( talk) 08:01, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure, but it seems bad to do it by templates:
A borrowing of the script is the best solution. I vote for it! -- Wai Wai ( talk) 08:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
In S.O.S. Mathematics, there is an image which appears as a dead link, as if the image it did not exist (when I click on the link, it prompts me to upload a file). But the image does in fact exist: Image:Logo-cyberboard.png. I bypassed my cache via Ctrl-F5 and I also purged the image description page (both approximately an hour ago), but neither of these worked. Why doesn't Wikipedia recognize the image? Jay Gatsby( talk) 19:42, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Image:Logo-cyberboard.png%E2%80%8E
Hi, I'm hoping this is the right place for this issue. The {{lifetime|birthyear|deathyear|Surname, Firstname }} template that people have started putting at the bottom of biographical articles to automatically generate lifespan categories is causing me some difficulties. It works fine when years are entered, but when one or both of the years aren't entered it defaults to Category:Year of birth unknown and Category:Living people. For the former, this is unhelpful because the majority of articles without birthdates are of people where the birthdate could be found, just hasn't been yet - the "unknown" category is supposed to be for those people whose birthdates have been obscured by bad record-keeping or the sands of time, or is disputed by historians or might never be found. I know this might seem like a pedantic complaint, but one of the main things I busy myself with here is going through the year of birth missing category trying to fill in the dates, so I started trying to keep these two categories separate, a task which isn't helped by this template. In the latter case, the default is even less helpful, since it may result in people dead hundreds of years but with no listed deathdate being categorised as living people. I propose that both default instead to the Category:Year of birth missing and Category:Year of death missing categories, which play the part of some kind of triage. Alas I have no idea how to go about this. How does anyone else view this matter, and could it be changed? Jdcooper 18:44, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
How do you make simple corrections in an article such as a misspelt surname?-- Clayto3h 17:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way to get a PDA / mobile friendly on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GivenRandy ( talk • contribs) 13:30, 4 August 2006
Hi, I'd like to change the banner colours of Portal:Architecture to something more like:-
The Architecture Portal |
so that the colour scheme suggests old fashioned Blueprints which seems appropriate. When I look at the code on the portal page there's no 'background:insipidblue color:darkblue' line so I assume it's being picked up from somewhere else.
Many thanks -- Mcginnly | Natter 11:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
On en.wikipedia.org, where yesterday there was a blurb about the Wikimedia Foundation elections, there is now just a single character (Unicode 0x2003, "EM SPACE"). I expect this is unintentional. —
ptk✰
fgs 05:21, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Every day it seems like I'm losing articles in my watchlist. I don't get it. The other day for instance I know for certain that I had Tomorrow Never Dies in my watchlist but today, it wasn't listed. I've been using AWB to fix links in some pages that are on my watchlist, is there maybe a bug with that where it's removing them or something? I'm not talking just.. an article or two. It's doing this to 20-30 or so. ?? K1Bond007 21:34, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi I forgot my password so I clicked the forgot password link and they said a email would be sent to me but I didn't receive one. I did this several more times and still nothing.-- 207.200.116.203 21:33, 3 August 2006 (UTC) Axeman
I've noticed that on certain "Talk" pages, e.g. the 2006 Israel-Lebanon Conflict, there is a lot of debate, but no conclusion or action taken. I propose that this is because the discussion is unstructured, and users insert comments wherever relevant, so the discussion doesn't follow a linear pattern (i.e. "Well what about this . . . ", "I disagree . . .", etc.) and no concensus is drawn. I suggest these pages get converted into a forum-based format with posts and threads, like those that are very common on the web. These allow topics to be organized by subject and posts are ordered by date, with the ability to "reply" to someone directly. I know this is a big suggestion and would require a lot of reorganization and system changes and I'm a very new member of the community, so I don't expect to be taken completely seriously. But, on the other hand, I thought if no one suggests it, then that's a greater loss. Also, there are many applications that are designed to implement online forums, so executing this might not be so hard. Mhsia 18:20, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Is it just me, or has the top margin of the contents (the stuff below the tabs) shifted upwards a bit? For example, see my my user page. The title "User:Deepujoseph" used to be in level with "a.k.a thunderboltz". The problem seems to be happening only on en.wiki.-- thunderboltza.k.a.D eepu Joseph | TALK13:04, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Anyone know why if there's a left thumbnail image in a bullet list the list is not indented properly (at least in classic skin with Safari)? See, for example, Denver, Colorado#Airports vs. Denver, Colorado#Landmarks. I've added explicit divs 50px wider than the thumbnails in the Landmarks section to "fix" this, but doing this should clearly not be necessary. -- Rick Block ( talk) 14:08, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
?useskin=monobook
to the URL to see it yourself). Monobook seems to use a wider right margin on left thumbnails (the float only pushes the text; the bullets are attached to the left of the text, living inside the margin; if the margin is too short, they'll end up under the image). --
cesarb 16:31, 28 July 2006 (UTC)<div class="thumb tleft">
. Does tleft need to be defined in
standard.css? Is there some reason it's not in
common.css? --
Rick Block (
talk) 19:07, 28 July 2006 (UTC)tleft
is on
monobook/main.css on monobook and on
common/common.css on classic/standard (see
Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes for the other skins). Since it can vary depending on the skin (for instance, some skins might want to use a different colour for the borders), it should not be at
MediaWiki:Common.css. --
cesarb 19:47, 28 July 2006 (UTC)border-width: .5em 1.4em .8em 0;
to
common/common.css (this is in the monobook version)? Are these CSS files controlled through
Bugzilla? --
Rick Block (
talk) 03:53, 29 July 2006 (UTC)I have been trying to figure out this for a long time. Is it possible to have an image on an article that links to a page other than that image's info page? I could really use some help. BrainiacOutcast 18:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
The articles Bet and BET are different. Likewise, Net and NET. I'm trying to create an article at OGA, but I keep on getting Oga when I type it into search. What am I missing here? - Richardcavell 05:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Today, a lot of the time, when I revert using "popups" it looks like it is being changed, but in the end nothing has happened. If I manually take an older version and edit and save it, same problem, I just tried to remove some vandalism around 10 times over a five minute period. I then switched to another computer, and got the same problem. -- Brat32 04:55, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
What does the new "account creation blocked" flag do with respect to blocking registered users? My guess is: blocks account creation with the same duration and scope that the "autoblock" would have blocked edits. But is that what actually is happening? 192.75.48.150 18:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
If an edit is reverted (by an admin, not just manually), is the edit still listed on the user's contributions, recent changes etc., or does it vanish forever? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dbmag9 ( talk • contribs) 15:21, 2 August 2006
Does anyone know of a program that can convert a spreadsheet (csv, xls, OpenOffice, or whatever) automatically to MediaWiki Markup, to produce a table? Obviously all formulas etc would not be convertible, but it would be really useful to be able to convert a spreadsheet which just contains numbers and text strings.
The reason I ask this is that I am trying to sort out the statistics on the page for the soccer player Pele. His goalscoring record is a matter of some debate, but even official sites such as fifa.com list him as having scored over 1000 goals. I have got a list (spreadsheet) of every match Pele played in, and wanted to put it up on a subpage of the Pele article, so that Wikipedians could go through it and note which matches are legitimate and which weren't (e.g., matches Pele played for the Army during national service, commercial tours of the Far East he undertook while playing for New York Cosmos, etc.). My initial estimate is that Pele scored only 700 odd goals in 800 odd official matches: around 500 or so goals short of the total that is normally given!
I think this is a really important bit of work, as the entire world seems confused (or just plain wrong!) as to how many goals Pele scored. I don't think it counts as original research, either; just a really, really, really complicated reference. So, if anyone knows of a way of converting a spreadsheet to Mediawiki Markup, please let me know! Jim ( Talk) 11:41, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
At the top of everybody's watchlist there is a note saying:
I would argue that the link about "removing all items" is not necessary there, and rather belongs in the "Edit watchlist" page, accessible from the watchlist (so that first you see what items you have on your watchlist before deciding if you want to remove all them or not).
Comments on that welcome at MediaWiki talk:Watchdetails#Link to clear the whole watchlist. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 03:06, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
For those developers who would rather put their scripts in a central repository, I have created User:Userscripts. (It seems that scripts can't be hosted anywhere outside of the User namespace.) Instructions for setting up a script there can be found on the userpage. Just FYI. Ingoolemo talk 23:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Where is the favicon file stored for wikis? If I want to upload a file to use as the favicon for a wiki, can I, or do I have to contact a developer and send it to them? In particular I mean Wikimedia Incubator, which is currently using the same as the Wikipedia favicon. — D a niel (‽) 17:19, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I recently changed template:Infobox Union from the "hiddenStructure" format to Qif. Unfortunately, now there are several lines of white space being produced on the top of articles using the ‘box. Bluemoose posted a solution on the UNISON article by filling in the empty fields, but that's pretty problematic in the long run. Any suggestion?
{| class="infobox" style="width: 25em; text-align: left; font-size: 90%; " cellspacing="2" |+ style="font-size: 1.25em;" | '''{{{name}}}''' {{#if:{{{image|}}}|<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">{{{image|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{full_name|}}}|<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">{{{full_name|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{native_name|}}}|<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">''{{{native_name|}}}''</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{founded|}}}|<tr><th>'''Founded'''</th><td>{{{founded|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{current|}}}|<tr><th>'''Cur. affiliation date'''</th><td>{{{current|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{dissolved_date|}}}|<tr><th>'''Date dissolved'''</th><td>{{{dissolved_date|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{merged_into|}}}|<tr><th style="padding-left: 1em;">'''{{{ dissolved_state|Merged into}}}'''</th><td>{{{merged_into}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{members|}}}|<tr><th>'''Members'''</th><td>{{{members|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{country|}}}|<tr><th>'''Country'''</th><td>{{{country|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{head|}}}|<tr><th>'''Head union'''</th><td>{{{head|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{affiliation|}}}|<tr><th>'''Affiliation'''</th><td>{{{affiliation|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{people|}}}|<tr><th>'''Key people'''</th><td>{{{people|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{office|}}}|<tr><th>'''Office location'''</th><td>{{{office|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{website|}}}|<tr><th>'''Website'''</th><td>{{{website|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{footnotes|}}}|<tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: smaller;">{{{footnotes|}}}</td></tr>}} |}<noinclude>[[Category:Infobox templates|Union]]</noinclude>
Thanks.-- Bookandcoffee 17:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{image|}}}|<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">{{{image|}}}</td></tr>}} <!-- -->{{#if:{{{full_name|}}}|<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">{{{full_name|}}}</td></tr>}}
Thanks for the help - it is greatly appreciated. -- Bookandcoffee 10:22, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
hi, i would like to write an article about myself, but i cant seem to move/rename it to Bloodpack ---> Ferdinand Ramos Barba anyone help? thanks † Bloodpack argh! 13:12, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Why is there a break at the top of UNISON? Usually I can get rid of such things, but I'm stumped. Melchoir 11:40, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way to link an image to an article instead of the image's own page? -- farukahmet ( talk) 11:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
It seems I must have one login per language I want to contribute in. Are there any plans for making the logins span all languages in the future? I would very much like to know the reason why a seperate login is required for every language. Manos1394 10:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
ATF: I am not sure where to ask for help on this troubleshooting issue with a template, but perhaps someone here can direct me to the right area of wikipedia. I have been trying to create a template to allow easy surfing between entries on U.S. Cavalry units, but I have trouble getting the text to wrap around it rather than start in line with the template. Consequently, wherever the template is placed in the entry, that is where the entry begins (instead of at the top and then wrapping around the template when it gets to it). An example is better than words: visit U.S. 1st Cavalry Division and then see if you can fix the problem in the template at Template:Cavalry. Thanks, User:Atfyfe
Just tried to edit a page and this error keeps comming up. Martial Law 04:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
While placing Glenn Spencer's name in the catagory of notable people from Arizona, the save function is'nt working @ this time. Martial Law 05:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
If a user keeps posting the same external link to multiple articles and I keep removing it (within a 24 hour period), am I in violation of the Wikipedia:Three-revert rule? -- Brat32 01:32, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to use images from a non-English version of Wikipedia, licensed GFDL, and with clumsy names. I am not the author. Should I try to upload them to Commons (no experience with that), or should I simply re-upload them in the English version, with meaningful names? ( original question). -- Cameltrader 00:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
In this example in my sandbox, I have tried including a <ref> inside an article that is then transcluded into another. As you can see, the reference doesn't appear when the <References /> tag is invoked in the master page, even though the ID (in this case 4) given to the transcluded reference takes the master page IDs into account.
Is there a way to do this, even if the transcluded IDs come after all the master IDs, regardless of position within the displayed item? Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated! regards Lynbarn 13:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I've found several IP addresses posting spam, they seem to operate in bursts, waiting a week and then coming back. Is there any way that I can get notified if they make another post, so I can go check if it is more spam? -- Brat32 05:14, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Several user pages have an index box that lists all the double == headings. But when I look at them, I cannot figure out how it's added. -- Brat32 05:14, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to get a "last diff" tab and I've been experimenting and nothing works. I'm trying on this account so I don't mess up my other monobook. Could I get some help? {{subst:User:GangstaEB/Sig}} 00:28, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
function addOnload(eventLoad) { if (window.addEventListener) window.addEventListener("load", eventLoad, false); else if (window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent("onload", eventLoad); } function addlilink(tabs, url, name, id){ var na = document.createElement('a'); na.href = url; na.appendChild(document.createTextNode(name)); var li = document.createElement('li'); li.id = id; li.appendChild(na); tabs.appendChild(li); return li; } function addTab(url, name, id, title, key){ var tabs = document.getElementById('p-cactions').getElementsByTagName('ul')[0]; addlilink(tabs, url, name, id, title, key); } addOnload(function() { addTab(document.getElementById('ca-history').getElementsByTagName('a')[0].href.replace( /action=history/, 'diff=0' ), 'last diff', 'ca-diff'); });
the logo within a university box at Christ Church, Oxford refuses to go into the center - why is this, and how can it be fixed? [[User:Wikiman}} 22.51, 30 July 2006
Occasionally I get an error that the database is locked with reason "investigating server problem", followed by the text that I'm about to edit (which means it is not cached). When I refreshed, everything worked fine. Is this a possible spillover from what happened about a week ago? - Mailer Diablo 16:19, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
What must I do to get Chinese characters to display properly within Wikipedia articles? At the moment, I just get a small square for each Chinese character. Other languages such as Burmese display OK
--
Gallicurci 09:31, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Gah, who came up with that idea? ⇒ JarlaxleArtemis 04:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, that was a close one. ⇒ JarlaxleArtemis 05:15, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
In the past several months, my version of Safari (Safari 2.0.4) for the Macintosh OS X system (version 10.4.7) has consistently produced "garbage" characters when your pages change typestyles for such things as references.
This was not always so. I had been using Safari on your pages for several years with no problem seeing all the intended characters.
Can you tell me whether this is due to a change in the way your stylesheets call out the fonts, or whether there is something wrong with my Safari? If you know it, can you tell me what to do to fix it?
Thanks very much!
--Dave Shugarts
Is it possible in any way to include a list of all the pages in a category into an article? -- Cormallen 18:36, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Are some images more processing-intensive than others? I was under the impression that image resizing and rendering was done only once (say, the first time an image is requested at ##px), so even if complex svg rendering is required, it wouldn't particularly matter. However, a user has expressed concern that some large images should not be used for stub templates because of their high server load. Is there truth to this? ~ Booya Bazooka 14:47, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Please see User:Daniel.Bryant. How do I remove the lines which appear on top the image when you put your mouse on them? If you know, and have a minute to spare, feel free to fix it, as it'd be much appreciated. Cheers, Killfest2— Daniel.Bryant 08:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
.clicktemplate a:hover { text-decoration: none !important; }
Where can I find the code and MediaWiki template that allows someone to return to the last page he/she was viewing after logging in? -- Wikitravel Sapphire 04:54, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
&returnto=pagename
(where pagename is the name of the page you are on).<form name="userlogin" method="post" action="/?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin&type=login&returnto=pagename">
. When you submit the form, the html generates (from that parameter) the meta tag to take you to that page: <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10;url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pagename" />
in the html.<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10;url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pagename" />
in the html.The website is a major reference site for us at WikiProject NASCAR and WikiProject IROC. The website is now called racing-reference.info (note the changed extension). I need to change all "racing-reference.com" strings to "racing-reference.info". I have an AWB, but I don't know how to program it to do the task. Any suggestions? -- Royalbroil 21:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Strangely I can connect using Firefox, but IE won't see WP. Was alright until recently. Perhaps WP board have come to their sense and banned IE users? No? I thought not. Any ideas? (P.S. I can see wiktionary) Rich Farmbrough 00:50 29 July 2006 (GMT).
Ever since I blocked User:Azproductions (company username), the autoblocker has continously produced many autoblocks over several days ( [6]). I've tried clearing them, but it didn't work. Is there a way to stop the autoblocks? Thanks. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 17:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I am regularly the victim of collateral damage caused by blocks to User:202.156.6.54, an IP shared by most Singapore users. This has caused me Wikistress, and to lash out at times. Recently, there were several changes to the blocking policy which are intended to prevent such collateral damage. However, they have not been successful at eliminating the problem. I am still the victim of collateral damage caused by autoblocks, although they are not as common, and I am no longer blocked in the event of regular IP blocks. Please note that autoblocks usually last much longer - several hours, compared to 15 minutes to a few hours for regular blocks. Therefore, I am pushing for further changes to the blocking policy and MediaWiki software, to prevent collateral damage by autoblocks. For example, autoblocks could be made optional. -- J.L.W.S. The Special One 15:06, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Any thoughts on this? The St Louis Cardinals logo (:Image:Saint Louis Cardinals Logo.svg) is not coming up at St. Louis Cardinals. For comparison, the Chicago Cubs and other teams' logos come up fine. The logo file exists, seems to be about the same size as the Cubs' logo, and the code uses in the MLB infobox (which calls the logos) appears identical. Kind of puzzled here. Herostratus 21:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Myself and a few others were wondering if its possible to hide references that take up a large amount of space, specifically on the 2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict page, as there are almost 150 references as of now. Thanks! Frinkahedr0n 20:03, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
It might be a bit too non-traditional, but you could use a <div style="overflow:auto">...
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-- Interiot 02:02, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Could someone tell me what fonts are supported for SVGs? Or more specifically, if I was to upload an SVG with DejaVu Sans (as a referenced font, not embedded) could MediaWiki render it correctly? I want to upload SVG renderings of a number of Unicode characters not in most fonts, which are currently GIF and I need to know if I can use DejaVu Sans as text or will I have to convert it to standard SVG paths (easy, but larger size than if it was text) - Рэд хот 15:00, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Can someone fix the wikiness of this article? The first three "edit" links are groups halfway down the third section in the middle of a paragraph -- Kendrick7 20:43, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
A problem has appeared with the operation of category pages. Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs contains entries for articles that are not in the category. Alan Pascoe 22:23, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
-- 62.147.112.177 10:00, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Er, is there no developer on this board? Should it be posted somewhere else? Zero answer seems weird for such a straightforward yes/no question. 62.147.38.54 13:29, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
What is Compost doing in the "What links here" results for "Tiberian Hebrew"? [8] There are other entries in that list that probably don't belong there either. Is there something inaccurate about "What links here"? -- Hoziron 12:26, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to edit the above article, but I am running into a problem with footnotes. In ordinary circumstances this page should have 21 footnotes - but as you will see on the page, these 21 have increased to 42. For some reason the first 21 are listed as per usual, then the list is repeated for 22 through to 42. Furthermore, the footnotes in the text now start from number 22, rather than number 1. Can anyone shed any light on the problem?
Xdamr talk 23:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I notice that these are frequently added to articles such as here but they do not display. What do they do, please? TerriersFan 22:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Putting this in its own section because tons of people seem to be having this problem right now.
Adding ?action=purge to the URL of the page you are having problems with (load the page, then in the address bar, add ?action=purge to the end of the URL and press Enter) seems to fix the problem with doubled footnotes and references that don't work, at least for some people. It worked for me with the Millsaps College article I edited yesterday. I'm not sure this is a permanent fix for the article itself; it may just fix your browser, but I guess it's worth trying.
Credit goes to User:Gimmetrow in the "Mysterious problem involving footnotes and citation templates" above. -- Tkynerd 13:44, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
As I've been adding a lot of references lately to an article, I've also come across this problem. And I noticed something interesting, thay may hint at the cause of the problem. Editing a section creates a different result than editing the entire page. The footnotes or references start with those that are placed in that section or below, and then the entire article is scanned again, which results in only some footnotes or references being doubled. If you edit the entire page, it essentially does the same, resulting in a complete doubling. Errabee 14:44, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
This is a good fix, but still very annoying. The doubling effect has happened on three articles I have edited references for -- starting yesterday. -- MattWright ( talk) 17:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Has anyone put in a bug report to mediawiki? -- Stbalbach 04:00, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
I was just reading Wikipedia:Help_desk#Footnotes_at_Opus_Dei and thought that it was a problem on that end, solved easily by deleting cache etc. But after I editted Every Song Is A Cry For Love, the same error occured to me. The problem is gone and it's does not matter for me much, but I'm wondering if there's a bigger problem at Wikipedia's end. — Jared Hunt August 29, 2006, 13:28 (UTC)
I recently checked the "What links here" for the article Arsenal F.C. (e.g. [9]) and found it now contains a lot of articles pertaining to Italian municipalities (e.g. Camporgiano), a seemingly unrelated topic. I assumed it was something to do with the navigation templates they use ( Template:Province of Lucca) but I can't find any link to Arsenal F.C. within the template, nor anywhere else in the article. Checking the "Related changes" link for Camporgiano [10] produces a list of mostly unrelated articles ( Arab League, Guadeloupe, MSN), none of which are seemingly linked to in the page. Can anyone shed a light as to why? Qwghlm 09:14, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
The job queue is now over 400,000. Could it be that every page on WP is being invalidated and recached? Gimmetrow 16:31, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I tried to make a little List of misnamed theorems, but something went terribly wrong and I can't figure out how to fix the problem. For some mysterious reason, all the arrows pointing to the place where a footnote occurs are doubled in the reference section. Only the second of each pair appears to be functional. Please fix it if you can! --- CH 02:57, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
It seems to come and go. Reloading the page was one of the first things I tried, and it didn't seem to help. To my surprise, just after making the above query, reloading the page did seem to resolve the problem, but this definitely didn't seem to help earlier today. I am still baffled, but the fact that so many are experiencing problems suggests that something in the code might have been broken by a modification earlier today. --- CH 03:09, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
This question is very quickly becoming the MFAQ of the day. Is any permanent solution at hand? -- Lost (talk) 16:23, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I have filed bugzilla:7166, related to this issue. Dragons flight 18:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I have added a colored box to the top of this page to direct people towards the temporary solution (and to avoid even more sections talking about the same problem). -- cesarb 18:50, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Due to a second instance of vandalism in my archives by users who cannot edit my user talk page (it was sprotected after it had been vandalized multiple times by IPs of banned users) I had decided to create a subpage that I have transcluded into my user talk page. However, I do not want level two headers nor do I want sections by established users to be superceded by possibly vandalous edits by malicious vandals. Is there a way to either
-- Ryūlóng 01:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
If you go to the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/phtml it redirects to Main Page (and uses real http codes to redirect), but if you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phtml it uses the wiki-redirect system to go to PHP.
If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=phtml it wiki-reidrects to PHP and so does ?title=Phtml.
If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.phtml it http-redirects to main page.
So i'm guessing it thinks /wiki/phtml is equivelant to /wiki.phtml .
Is there any reason why it thinks a slash is a dot?
GeorgeMoney ( talk) 23:35, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
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(matches any character) when they meant \.
(matches a literal dot). Report it on
bugzilla (product Wikimedia, component General/Unknown), and a developer will fix it later when they have time. --
cesarb 18:35, 29 August 2006 (UTC)I have an odd situation with footnotes on the United States Marine Corps article. The very first such link (1a in the references) doesn't go anywhere. Moreover, the links to the article and current version show different numbers of footnotes.
I have a feeling it's a malformed footnote somewhere, but are there any clues to where it might be?-- Mmx1 23:10, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I don't know what's causing it, but purging ( [12]) fixes it. -- NE2 23:52, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Something has gone wrong with the reference numbers at Miniclip. The references are duplicated and the first inline reference numbers is 8. No obvious cause. -- John Nagle 19:38, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I was editing the article on High Technology High School, and I added a new reference. When I previewed the page, everything seemed right, but when I saved the page, the references were doubled. What I mean by this was that there are six references, but reference one became reference 7, reference two became 8, and so on. Has anyone encountered this before, or will it fix itself?
-- BadgerOfDarkness 19:23, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Help, Mr. Wizard!
No matter how many times I click that button to send a confirmation e-mail to my address, I never receive a single one. They're not even spam-blocked; they just don't come. It's been 12 hours since my first try, and even that one hasn't arrived. I don't use a free address (e.g., hotmail, gmail, etc.), it's a standard e-mail address. I have no idea what's going on here...-- TServo2049 17:23, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
That preference has nothing to do with email address confirmation. 86.134.92.120 04:57, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello - I am having the same problem, but it's with the 'forget password' link. I do forget my password, but a new one is never emailed to me when I click that link. Help!
Is Wikipedia servers in Florida prepared for this thing ? IF it hits where they currently think it'll hit, the storm may take down Wikipedia. Ready for a Hurricane ? Martial Law 05:43, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
There are contingencies established at various levels to handle this sort of thing. 86.134.92.120 04:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Lately, a few times a day, when I'm accessing Wikipedia, my Firefox browser pops up a message about a script that can't run & gives me the choice of stopping it. Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here? (If you do, could you possibly answer here and ping me on my user talk page to let me know to come look? Thanks in advance.) - Jmabel | Talk 18:57, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
On wikipedia to edit a semiprotected page a user must have a 4-day old account, but on my wiki (MediaWiki 1.6) a user only needs the account no mater how old it is. What is the cause of the difference? 213.94.234.66 21:24, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Quick answer; the autoconfirmed group isn't switched on by default; set $wgAutoConfirmAge = 86400 * 4;
in LocalSettings.php to do this.
86.134.92.120 05:00, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
In the past hour or so, http://svn.wikimedia.org ( m:MediaWiki_extensions) has been down. I've looked at some of the status sites, but it's hard to interpret the results on them. Anyone know of the best place to go to check on the most up-to-date mediawiki and wikimedia server status? -- J. J. 17:45, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Since the Bugzilla page requires registration that includes an e-mail address, I am unable to use it to submit this bug report: The Links 2.1pre4 web browser can no longer view English Wikipedia content as of August 23, 2006 (and possibly up to a month before that). Any attempt to load a Wikipedia page results in much garbage being displayed, instead of readable text. A lot of the garbage shown in the display consists mostly of asterisks (*) and periods (.) with a few alphanumeric characters and punctuation marks.
Spanish, German, and Netherlands Wikipedia are still readable, and all languages are readable in Mozilla and Lynx.
72.49.64.171 08:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
For some days I've been getting a weird error while trying to access some pages on Wikipedia. It's mostly for the Main Page but I've noticed some other pages have this problem as well. I have uploaded a screenshot of the error here:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/_sleepflower/wikierror.jpg
(It's in Dutch but I trust everyone is familiar with it; it basically asks me if I want to save a file called "Main_Page" that is of unknown format.) I tried to access the Main Page here but all I got was this weird error. This has happened on and off for the last few days, sometimes disappearing and then reappearing again. It seems to be only a problem in IE, as I am using Firefox right now (I couldn't access the technical help page in IE, got the error again) and it works just fine. I use Windows XP with IE 6. Anyone know what this is? 62.163.35.231 10:44, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
In your preferences, under the 'Editing' section, make sure "Use external editor by default" and "Use external diff by default" are off. Prodego talk 13:41, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
I am having the same problem too, got IE 6...I tried restoring to defaults and it is still not working, I can't access the main page or some articles...is something wrong with my comp...or wikipedia?
My guess is something with wikipedia and IE. Firefox seems to work just fine. I also did not have an account when trying this. Have logged into multiple machines with multiple versions of IE 6 running and all exhibit this behaviour.
The main page is working for me now...but still some of the articles are still not working for me...I don't have a account either.
I've found that it can work at times, then try the same page again and the Main_Page download prompt occurs again...
The main page isn't working for me once again as aren't some articles...what is odd...the articles not working for me...keeps on changing. This is very werid.
Special:Contributions/203.134.131.18
My interpretation of the sequence of events here is:
Is my interpretation of the technical details of the new message process correct? That is, an IP address receives a new message flag even if they are only reading WP from that address, and no matter how old that message is? That's unfortunate, isn't it? 192.75.48.150 19:02, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Sorry if this has already been discussed elsewhere, but I've been having a weird new display bug since this morning: In IE with monobook skin, the top link bar (the one that contains user page - "my talk" - "my preferences" etc.) is displayed normally as right-aligned, but shifts to left-aligned the moment I hover the mouse over it. (Irritating, if you come to think of it.) It's on all Wikimedia sites apparently. Has some central style sheet been changed recently? Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Exists now, just thought I'd let you know. Happy editing-- {anon iso − 8859 − 1 janitor} 23:54, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
When I use this computer that I'm on currently, and I use the Back Page function to go to the Recent Changes page, instead of giving me the page as it looked at the time that I was last there, it gives me a refereshed page. Any ideas on why? This doesn't happen on my PC at home. I'm using IE 7 here and IE 6 at home, could that be the reason? User:Zoe| (talk) 22:14, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
This problem is similar to that just reported by Mattisse. I'm adding information with cites to Myopia, but I just noted that a number of cites are doubled or appear multiple times in the References section. I can't figure out what I may have done wrong. Thanks! - AED 21:31, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
The article is called Parchman. For some reason the footnote citations show up twice when I save the aricle. However, upon preview there are the correct number which is three.
Something is doubling the footnote citations and I can't figure out what. Help would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure it is something simple that I'm just not seeing! Mattisse (talk) 21:18, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Every time I log in using Monobook skin, all hyperlinks appear underlined. It's fixable by clearing my browser cache, but in doing so I lose the download time benefits of having the pages cached. (Note: I use Internet Explorer). C. M. Harris Talk to me 19:38, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I installed mediawiki software on my server and it works well. There is only one thing missing. Not every template is included. How do I install additional features so that the mediawiki software that I have installed becomes exactly like the one which is running wikipedia.org
Are there additional plugins, etc available which have to be installed.
For example, the following tags <ref></ref> are not parsed and look like tags only. The method that I have used is to iimport xml dumps using importdump.php and then browse the pages .
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.163.2.66 ( talk • contribs) 13:25, August 28 2006 (UTC)
I am sure this question has been asked before but I can't find an answer anywhere. I am working on a series of articles for buildings in a suburb. Each building has its own article. I want to show a map of the suburb (which I have) with each building marked. When a reader clicks on the individual building on the map, it will take them to the Wikipedia article for that building. I haven't seen this done anywhere before on Wikipedia - any ideas? amitch 05:50, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
An idea which is floated from time to time on WT:DYK is to apply for adminship on commons, as often images from Commons need to appear on the Wikipedia front page, and the current process is to save the image from commons, reupload it, protect it, and then delete it once it has gone from the front page. Adminship on Commons would save a lot of time as it removes the need to reupload the image. However, if an image is protected on Commons, does it automatically get protected on all other projects, or could I potentially upload another image to Wikipedia under the same name, thus circumventing the protection? smurrayinch ester( User), ( Talk) 07:03, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Using Firefox, the TOCs on all Wikipedia pages are gone. (I still see them using IE.) As nobody else has complained, it is probably just me, and could be something I have inadvertently done with the browser settings, but I have absolutely no idea what that could be. Any ideas? Tupsharru 06:35, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way to determine an editor's IP? For example, I would be interested in knowing the IP that the brand-new User:Olmeque used for his/her first posts. Curiously yours, Madman 20:48, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
The Template:European mathematicians has some serious issues. Could some kind person please try to fix it? You can see what is doing to all affected categories by taking a look at Category:German mathematicians. Thanks! - GilliamJF 19:24, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I want to print an article in Wikipedia. So I copy it in Microsoft word, but the wiki style will be lost! How can I transfer the info in wiki to Microsoft word if I don't want to change the style? (Like picture place and math formulas, etc)-- MehranVB talk | cont 14:31, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
I have searched and searched and cannot find the answer. I don't want a border around my image. JadedHeart 09:08, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
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I wasn't using either thumb or frame, and the smilies you posted also have a border around them. I don't want the box to show, I think it probably has something to do with the fact that it is a hyperlink, cuz it was purple and after I clicked on it, it was blue. So I guess my question should have been, "How do I make hyperlinks not be framed?"
JadedHeart 18:33, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
I just changed the name of the upcoming Modest Mouse album to We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, however, I can't figure out how to change it in the box at the bottom of all the MM pages. Can someone help me out here? The "the" is clearly lowercase, so the discography box on the MM pages should reflect that. Evan Reyes 03:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
I want to split the table at Huddersfield Town F.C.#Managers over three columns with the headings at the top of each. 'How to', please? BlueValour 21:24, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Name | Period | Name | Period | Name | Period |
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Fred Walker | 1908–1910 | Richard Pudan | 1910–1912 | Arthur Fairclough | 1912–1919 |
Ambrose Langley | 1919–1921 | Herbert Chapman | 1921–1925 | Cecil Potter | 1925–1926 |
Jack Chaplin | 1926–1929 | Clem Stephenson | 1929–1942 | Ted Magner | 1942–1943 |
Many thanks for this. Just a supplementary; is it possible for a small amount of white background space (as opposed to a blank column) be inserted between each pair of columns, please?
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How to create a menu on an article in wikipedia that can be expanded dynamically with a plus sign? One example is to create a detailed menu of a book, so that it will not take much space. If some one can give me a code and instructions to implement, it'll be great. Thanks in advance. TruthSpreader Talk 15:40, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
How do I link to other wikimedia wikis?-- Mac Lover Talk C 20:40, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
By error I have registered twice ton Wikipedia - after some time of inactivity I couldn't log in so I have registered anew. Now I have found that I have some contribution to both accounts and also some to my IP before I have logged in for the first time. Is it possible to join the three into one account without losing any information? noychoH 19:56, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
When in a diff page, the edit buttons next to a subject heading dissapears. Has anyone else been having this problem? I am using Linux KDE with Firefox 1.5.0.4. Thanks -- liquidGhoul 10:45, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
How long does it take for a new article to make it into the search feature. I search for the title of my article and it does not show up — Preceding unsigned comment added by Involved ( talk • contribs) 01:08, 25 August 2006
On RfA there is usually mention of the number of edits often by type. How do I find out my stats, please? BlueValour 22:08, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
This is an edit request for protected template:cite news. See template talk:cite news#Moving cats and interwikis to doc subpage. I would like to have the new doc page pattern completed there. See also Wikipedia:Template limits. -- Ligulem 16:16, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Is anyone else noticing PNG images disappearing and reappearing in Wikipedia while using Mozilla Firefox for Windows? Is this a browser issue or a Wikipedia issue? (Sorry if this has been brought up before) Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 15:54, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
More info: The PNG image in question has a transparent background and is being used on the WikiProject Louisville page as well as project templates. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:24, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I think the whole idea of Wikipedia is amazing and it has been the main source of my education for a while now. However,There's just one small complaint, I can never download your sound examples! What file type are they? Is there software I can download for this? Am I doing something wrong? Are they not Wav. files? And if not, why not? Please let me know as I am a composer/sound engineer who would benefit greatly from your examples of sine waves and ring modulation etc.
Will be looking forward to a reply
Sonny Collins
The Save Page button is working 1/2 the time or it does NOT work at all. Martial Law 19:18, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
You press the SAVE button, either nothing happens, or you get into a edit conflict - w/ YOURSELF, "Operation has Timed Out" signals. Or it freezes. Martial Law 18:33, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I uploaded an article this morning, and can't find it when I browse Google or Wikipedia search. Is there something I need to do so that the page shows up? --— Preceding unsigned comment added by Annakup ( talk • contribs)
In the Duke Nukem Forever page, I just tried to add three refs pointing to already existing refs - but only one of them works (#22). The other two (#18 and #19) don't show up at all, instead becoming empty refs down at #23 and #24. THis puzzles me and I am wondering where I messed up. Hbdragon88 03:40, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
<ref name=xxx>
). The subsequent reference looks fine in both cases. --
Rick Block (
talk) 04:11, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Why is it that whenever I post something to Wikipedia it dosen't show my user id at the end like it does for other people. I don't know if this is called the signature or not on this system or if I haven't set it up correctly or what the deal is. Any assistance anyone out there can provide me with would be most appreciated.
e-mail removed to prevent spam —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rockerrb ( talk • contribs) 2006-08-23 19:39:07 (UTC).
After reverting vandalism on Sunscreen, I added to the offending user's talk page:
{{subst:test3-n|Sunscreen}} ~~~~
The preview looked okay, except Sunscreen was redlinked. Assuming I fat fingered it, did the copy and paste again. It was still red linked and there was no obvious problem with spelling—and it didn't seem to be a day when a word like the defied correct spelling.
A while later the red vexed me, calling for more investigation. Clicking the redlink edits a new article named Sunscreen %E2 %80 %8E (spaces added for clarity). Those codes all seem displayable, though checking UTF-8 references, I got more confused: they could be gamma, cedilla, A umlaut. Or they could be circumflex a, control, single shift 2.
— EncMstr 18:33, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not sure sure if this is the right place to ask this... so sorry if I posted on the wrong page. I'd like to extract the link structure of the whole wikipedia to create a (pretty large) link graph and do some research. Maybe you can give me some hints where and how to start. Regards Cyc 12:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Normally, WikiProject templates are placed on the talk pages of articles catalogued for those projects, with the talk pages then automatically categorized for the project. Thus, showing "Related Changes" for the WikiProject category will show the latest changes to the talk pages of those articles. Is there a straightforward way to show "Related Changes" for the latest changes to the articles attached to those talk pages? Thanks. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:50, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Could someone please explain to me what we gain by having a category with 21,008 pages that miss citations? -- Ligulem 23:41, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
I have a template with some nasty nested #if blocks. I can live with the nesting, but it would be kind of nice there was something like If condition then Exit
Where exit would end any further processing of the template. No more wikitext, no more parser functions would be evaluated.
I assume this, or a workalike does not exist. Correct? - Mak Thorpe 01:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
<div> This part always shows <div style="{{#if:{{{hide|}}}|display:none}}"> This only shows if hide is undefined, and does not require a wrapping parserfunction. </div> </div>
I'm not sure whether I should report this to Bugzilla, but I post this nonetheless. If you look at the special character insert tools below, there are two <includeonly></includeonly>
"buttons." Nothing urgent, but I think it should be taken care of at some point. —
Jared Hunt August 22, 2006, 13:33 (UTC)
:D
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Jared Hunt August 22, 2006, 23:36 (UTC)When going to Aletheia I see an older version, instead of the most recent version I see when clicking the "edit this page" tab. -- Lambiam Talk 03:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
For some reason when I try to use the "edit this page" link on an existing article, or attempt to create a new one, I have an "index.php" sent by the wikipedia server to my client. Here's an example from this very page:
[Process] Type=Edit text Engine=MediaWiki Script= http://en.wikipedia.org/ Server= http://en.wikipedia.org Path=/w Special namespace=Special [File] Extension=wiki URL= http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&action=edit&internaledit=true
To actually edit the page, I have to extract the URL from the above and paste it into my browser. It seems to me that this should be some internal in-server thing causing an HTTP redirect to be issued maybe. My browser version is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
If I use the "edit" link from any section heading on a page, it does work as expected.
(Sorry if this is rather a bugzilla candidate.) -- BACbKA 17:05, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
I just tried a search for 'Harmony guitars'. It gave me the 'No such page' message and a series of links, none of which went ot 'Harmony company', which is where the information actually resides.
How do I put a link from a particular search to the page on which this information resides. In this case, how do I redirect the search 'Harmony guitars' to the 'Harmony company' page? The only thing I can think of is to create a Harmony guitars page and put a link to the company page, but that seems untidy. I've searched the help pages, but I've either been looking in the wrong place or the info's not there. Deke42 16:51, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Why does the menu (either the "Sign in/Create" or the User Menu( username, talk, contibution,preferance .. at the top of the page) jump from one side to the other (usually from Right ro left) as the mouse pointer reaches it and then stays at the Other end( sort of catch me if you can!!). And i "misclick" on the wikipedia image rather on my user page. I have noticed this in my other Language (Malayalam WIki too)..why does this happen...I just checked a fellow wikipedian and seems like this is not same for every body? Thanks activevoid ( talk) 17:03, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
I created another template but would like to center it within the article, as it is currently placed on the left side (as by default). How can I enable this formatting? 67.37.227.115 21:17, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
align=center
" to the first line. If it's some other sort of block, with a style, you can add "margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;
" to the style (which will work for most browsers). The old-fashioned HTML method of surrounding it with {{center| ... }}
will work, too. --
Rick Block (
talk) 22:03, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
I've looked for hours for the answer to this.
When I click on "edit this page" widnows responds that the file extension *.php is used by "picture it" instead of opening the edit screen like this one. It does it when I try to invoke the sandbox as well
My firewall settings are default and I tried turning the firewall off for a moment to try to get to the edit screen.
I've looked at mediawiki and that appears to be server software rather than a way to edit or add new articles.
What's up?
I have a standard template that has a narrow width. Is it possible to actually wrap text to the side of it? It can be found here: Template:UChicago2
mcshadypl 01:57, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
{| style='border:1px solid #dddddd; background-color:#fefefe; padding:3px; margin:0px'
{| style='border:1px solid #dddddd; background-color:#fefefe; padding:3px; margin:0px' width='WIDTHpx'
Currently, there is no default formatting for Wikitable captions, which makes them look small and ugly by default:
Registration | Type | Name | In service | Remarks |
---|---|---|---|---|
NC18601 | 314 | Honolulu Clipper | 1939-1945 | Sunk by US Navy |
NC18602 | 314 | California Clipper | 1939-1950 | Later renamed Pacific Clipper and sold to World Airways. Scrapped 1950. |
NC18603 | 314 | Yankee Clipper | 1939-1943 | Started Transatlantic mail service. Crashed February 22, 1943 in Lisbon, Portugal. |
NC18604 | 314 | Atlantic Clipper | 1939-1946 | Salvaged for parts. |
NC18605 | 314 | Dixie Clipper | 1939-1950 | Started transatlantic passenger service, later sold to World Airways. Scrapped 1950. |
NC18606 | 314 | American Clipper | 1939-1946 | Later sold to World Airways. Scrapped 1950. |
NC18609 | 314A | Pacific Clipper | 1941-1946 | Later sold to Universal Airlines. Damaged by storm and salvaged for parts. |
NC18611 | 314A | Anzac Clipper | 1941-1951 | Sold to Universal Airlines 1946, American International Airways 1947, World Airways 1948. Sold privately 1951, destroyed at Baltimore, Maryland 1951. |
NC18612 | 314A | Cape Town Clipper | 1941-1946 | Sold to: U.S. Navy - 1942, Sold to: American International Airways - 1947, Sunk at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard on October 14, 1947 |
This can easily be rectified by adding table.wikitable caption, table.prettytable caption { font-size: larger; font-weight: bold; }
to
MediaWiki:Common.css.
Ingoolemo
talk 00:03, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
This is my way of thanking the personnel in this area for their outstanding work.
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The da Vinci Barnstar
This is awarded to the personnel of WP:VP/T for their outstanding work. |
I'm about to make a non-commercial web-site for common use. It will contain local information for users comming from all over the globe. In order to implement the localization I need a database with the names of the cities(in english and in the native language of the country, the city is located in). Wikipedia provides such kind of information for the cities in the world. My question is - may I get this database from Wikipedia? maybe, somebody could make a dump of the part of the Wikipedias database with the tables with the information about the cities in the world into a text(csv)-file and make it available for download(it should take just severel minutes)? the information that I need is that one that appears in a small table once you look up a citie's name - name of the city in the native language, in english, position in administrative hierarchie, zip, international telephone code, etc.
thank you in advance Vladimir Pekar-- 85.250.184.182 19:36, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Everytime I edit anything, maybe even here, I get kicked OFF this site. Martal Law 19:27, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Nope. See above. Also consult http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html for information on how to ask questions in the right manner. 86.134.49.147 23:00, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Martial Law, could you please clarify what you mean by "kicked off this site"? Do you mean blocked from editing by an administrator as a result of your edits, or an actual technical issue? - Mark 12:09, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
The section edit links along the right hand side of articles were small (superscript-looking) in Internet Explorer 6. They are full-sized text in Internet Explorer 7. Not sure if this is a problem with our site or IE7. - Mark 03:23, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
I've prepared a comparison image of the rendering in IE6 and IE7 (the article in question is Closed London Underground stations). The comparison image is here. I wonder what the "intended" way it's meant to look is. - Mark 11:27, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
this is a serious problem and more common than people imagine. see my post, "Articles and their appearance in IE 6" (post #73) above. it needs to be addressed urgently. (sorry if i sound dramatic -- but the problem is serious) -- Mowglee 16:45, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Some of the images that I have uploaded have not appeared in Wikipedia articles. For example: Cowdivine.jpg in Sacred Cow, VCAstadiumnagpur.jpg in Nagpur. How do I fix this and avoid such errors in the future? Thanks! Wikindian 20:21, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I just became an admin over at incubator:, and so I've been deleting some pages. When you look at the restore option after a page has been deleted, you can choose which revisions to restore. Couldn't this be used to do this same thing as the oversight ability, to get rid of libelous information? — D a niel (‽) 16:12, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Deleting an entire page and then selectively undeleting revisions means more work for the database servers, and it's caused problems in the past (deleting George W. Bush, for instance)...in addition, there's no guarantee that another administrator won't attempt to remove another dodgy revision in future, and if they do, they may very well forget to unselect other troublesome revisions, undoing your work.
Finally, as pointed out, use of Oversight and Hiderevision means that the deleted data is taken somewhere that core MediaWiki is unaware of, so it's invisible. 86.134.49.147 23:09, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Can someone explain why a search for Cornwall gives 100% relevance to Cornwallis and only 95% to Cornwall? - -- Mad Bill 11.13 17/08/2006
That's all well and good, but what if the user's referring to the internal search engine, which isn't using any Google algorithms? 86.134.49.147 23:04, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Articles look formatted differently in different browsers. For instance,
can someone enlighten me? -- Mowglee 09:23, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
i have figured it out. in IE6, i changed "view-->encoding--->Unicode (UTF-8" to "view-->encoding--->user defined." and all my problems are gone. -- Mowglee 10:15, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Can someone who knows more about this than I do explain how caching is handled for pages with references to the {{CURRENTDAY}} and similar time sensitive variables? For example, the main page transcludes {{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}. What prompts this page to be regenerated (with the new day's featured article summary) and put in the squid caches every day? Do the Apaches really compute an expiry time based on which of these are present in the page and add an EXPIRES HTTP header or something (in which case, does including {{CURRENTTIME}} on a page effectively make it uncacheable)? I suppose I could go read the code, but if somebody happens to just know please explain. -- Rick Block ( talk) 02:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
The parser cache for each page also expires after a set time which is, IIRC, 24 hours. So if someone forgot to purge a page, it would eventually be updated. 86.134.49.147 23:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
I have a Bug that allows me to log in, some of the time. Most of the time, it does NOT. I'm on a Satellite IP. How do I or someone else can get this rectified ? Someone editing anything with this going on could be mistaken for a sock. On Aug 10-14, there was a meteor shower. Could the satellite be damaged ? I have to use a improvised sig while this is going on. Right now, I can't log in. Martial Law 18:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
You have been told before. Your ISP, like all satellite-based ISPs, uses proxying and caching and all manner of stupidity. There are copious archives on this page regarding the problem; the Chief Technical Officer himself has advised you. Please don't continue to post the same crap on this forum time and time again. Thank you. 86.134.116.228 21:10, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Please see MediaWiki talk:Linkshere, regarding passing a variable in to this display. Thanks! — xaosflux Talk 16:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure what to call it. Those six links ([User name], my talk, my preferences, my watchlist, my contributions, and log out), I'll just call them the toolbar. Anyways, every so often, all of the links suddenly jump to the very left of the page when you try to click on them. It's not a singular computer problem, because I've seen this happen on three different computers. I've seen this question here before, but the only reply was the very ambiguous and unhelpful comment "Tell Microsoft about it." So, why does the toolbar jump to the left?-- the ninth bright shiner talk 04:36, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
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Here, Quirkie asked quite puzzled why the page history did not reflect his edit reverting this vandalism. When I got to the page, the vandalism was gone, but the edit history did not reflect who had removed it. So, I thought that the page history entry needed purging, did so, and nothing worked. So, I tried doing a rollback/self-rollback cycle (as a null edit), but the first rollback did not do anything according to the diff function (or it actally reverted a version before the vandalism to the vandalism itself), and then made the vandalism reappear! I then was unable to rollback myself, for a reason I can't understand, then I had to eventually fix everything by hand. Are the database slaves out of sync again? Or what's going on? Tito xd( ?!?) 20:30, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Template:doi does not work if the parameter contains some characters. Can somebody look into it to try and figure something? See Template talk:doi for details and examples. Circeus 14:50, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Hello! My Talk page seems to be losing conversation threads. They appear in the history but not on the page and still do not appear when I either rollback to their first appearance or try to cut-and-paste in to the current revision. This is happening through Firefox (latest release) and IE6 on a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine with the latest patches, if that makes any difference. Please try to answer this on my Talk page! (aeropagitica) (talk) 10:12, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to copy a couple of articles (some deleted), complete with their edit histories, to a user space for reference. How can I do so? I see how to move, but not how to copy so that the original version isn't affected. I'm an admin, so I have access to the deleted pages. - Will Beback 09:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Someone started an article with title "Alexander Kirillov Jnr". This is not common English usage; better would be "Alexander Kirillov Jr" (well, punctuation would be appropriate ...). How should one edit a title --- keeping in mind the need to keep indices and cross-references elsewhere correct? (For example, this article is referred to in the article "Alexander Kirillov" (Junior's father).) -- DaveRusin 00:58, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
1937 Ordnance Survey map of Edmund Street
When I link to this Image:Edmund Street strip map 1937.png using //Image:Edmund Street strip map 1937.png|centre|thumb|300px|1937 Ordnance Survey map of Edmund Street// (brackets for slashes) in an article, all I get is a few black and white dots one or two pixels high. It is a somewhat wide image in 2-bit monochrome, produced withn Paint Shop Pro V7. Is the image corrupt? (it shows fine on its Image page). Can I use this technique for large width/small pixel depth images? Thanks Oosoom Talk to me 14:29, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Need an Eye Doc?
-Behzad
In the last day or two Wikipedia has started displaying dates in article histories in the form:
2006-08-04T10:34:19
instead of the usual ISO format:
2006-08-04 10:34:19
How can I revert it back to the original format? There is no option for this on the user preferences page. -- ozzmosis 00:46, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Is it just me, or have all the links in Wikipedia suddenly become underlined? Joziboy 18:18, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Ah okay, thanks :) The lines are gone, and it looks so much better. Thanks guys Joziboy 18:34, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
Links have just started underling - without me changing my preferences. I've looked in preferences, and there isn't an option to stop them underlining - what do I do? Some pages are almost unreadable now :( -- DuncanHill 23:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Well, I don't know what happened or who did it, but they seem to have stopped underlining again, so thank you to whoever fixed it! -- DuncanHill 23:36, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
@import "/?title=MediaWiki:Monobook.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css&smaxage=2678400"; @import "/?title=-&action=raw&gen=css&maxage=some number&ts=some timestamp"; @import "/?title=User:Yournick/monobook.css&action=raw&ctype=text/css";
The other day, on a lark, I print preveiwed an article. To my dismay the navigational template at the bottom of the article would, if printed, take up about half a page or more. So, that got me thinking, can there be a css class for purely navigational templates that would make them not print? Sort of like using "display:none;" for viewing in the browser. I know css, but not that side of it. - LA @ 06:19, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
The information on the Wikipedia Front Page is organized into Blocks, which in turn display different colors.
I would appreciate it very much if someone here could please throw me some linkage to a place where I can learn how to develop blocks for my own MediaWiki wiki.
Thanks, and have a wonderful evening! :) Jake Ben Delbek 03:51, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
I have written several technical definitions for Wikipedia. Insofar as I can tell, they have not been attacked for being controversial. However, when I do search a controversial topic, as indicated by the warning stripe across the top of the article, I find differing opinions obliterating one another on a regular basis. Religion and politics appear to be most prone to this.
So my suggestion is, instead of obliterating the text, leave the differing opinions stand, side by side, as it were, and highlight in differing type face or color those sections that would have been obliterated by the new editor. That way, anyone doing research on a given topic will have access to all differing opinions on the subject.
-- Plastechie 16:41, 5 August 2006 (UTC)plastechie
Hey, there's a special page of what links (to) here.
How about a "What links from here"?
Is it available? If not, can we create one?--
Wai Wai (
talk) 07:55, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
Since access logging isn't available, could someone please publish a list of the 1000 or 5000 most-watched articles? This is perhaps more meaningful for some questions. 71.132.136.162 03:09, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
No answer after a couple of weeks; so the question is now at Wikipedia talk:Statistics#Most watched articles. LossIsNotMore 00:08, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
The most watched might be the least vulnerable to vandalism(?) 171.66.111.20 05:28, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
How do you add "Coordinates" to an article...like the top right of Duke University? Also, how do you add the audio file up there? Thanks! Lasallefan 12:30, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Can you take me through how to add that to another university? I see an audio icon on the top right of some articles. Is that an audio file of the article?
Is it possible for the "Pages transcluded onto this page" list that appears below the editing textbox to show the hierachy of transclusions as well? Currently, if page A is transcluded onto page B, which is in turn transcluded onto page C, the "pages transcluded" list that appears when page C is edited would be:
A list that showed the transclusion hierachy would look like:
This would be useful, for example, in finding pages mistakenly dumped into CAT:CSD because a page transcluded onto them was speedy deleted. It is also more intuitive. Kimchi.sg 09:47, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
A few moments ago, Wikipedia sent me a page with all the links underlined, and it seemed like the formatting was off. A few moments letter, I reload the same page, everything seems normal again. Odd.. -- Alecmconroy 09:00, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
{{ dynamic link of Article A#See also}}
Is it possible?-- Wai Wai ( talk) 08:01, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure, but it seems bad to do it by templates:
A borrowing of the script is the best solution. I vote for it! -- Wai Wai ( talk) 08:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
In S.O.S. Mathematics, there is an image which appears as a dead link, as if the image it did not exist (when I click on the link, it prompts me to upload a file). But the image does in fact exist: Image:Logo-cyberboard.png. I bypassed my cache via Ctrl-F5 and I also purged the image description page (both approximately an hour ago), but neither of these worked. Why doesn't Wikipedia recognize the image? Jay Gatsby( talk) 19:42, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Image:Logo-cyberboard.png%E2%80%8E
Hi, I'm hoping this is the right place for this issue. The {{lifetime|birthyear|deathyear|Surname, Firstname }} template that people have started putting at the bottom of biographical articles to automatically generate lifespan categories is causing me some difficulties. It works fine when years are entered, but when one or both of the years aren't entered it defaults to Category:Year of birth unknown and Category:Living people. For the former, this is unhelpful because the majority of articles without birthdates are of people where the birthdate could be found, just hasn't been yet - the "unknown" category is supposed to be for those people whose birthdates have been obscured by bad record-keeping or the sands of time, or is disputed by historians or might never be found. I know this might seem like a pedantic complaint, but one of the main things I busy myself with here is going through the year of birth missing category trying to fill in the dates, so I started trying to keep these two categories separate, a task which isn't helped by this template. In the latter case, the default is even less helpful, since it may result in people dead hundreds of years but with no listed deathdate being categorised as living people. I propose that both default instead to the Category:Year of birth missing and Category:Year of death missing categories, which play the part of some kind of triage. Alas I have no idea how to go about this. How does anyone else view this matter, and could it be changed? Jdcooper 18:44, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
How do you make simple corrections in an article such as a misspelt surname?-- Clayto3h 17:25, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way to get a PDA / mobile friendly on Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by GivenRandy ( talk • contribs) 13:30, 4 August 2006
Hi, I'd like to change the banner colours of Portal:Architecture to something more like:-
The Architecture Portal |
so that the colour scheme suggests old fashioned Blueprints which seems appropriate. When I look at the code on the portal page there's no 'background:insipidblue color:darkblue' line so I assume it's being picked up from somewhere else.
Many thanks -- Mcginnly | Natter 11:51, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
On en.wikipedia.org, where yesterday there was a blurb about the Wikimedia Foundation elections, there is now just a single character (Unicode 0x2003, "EM SPACE"). I expect this is unintentional. —
ptk✰
fgs 05:21, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
Every day it seems like I'm losing articles in my watchlist. I don't get it. The other day for instance I know for certain that I had Tomorrow Never Dies in my watchlist but today, it wasn't listed. I've been using AWB to fix links in some pages that are on my watchlist, is there maybe a bug with that where it's removing them or something? I'm not talking just.. an article or two. It's doing this to 20-30 or so. ?? K1Bond007 21:34, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi I forgot my password so I clicked the forgot password link and they said a email would be sent to me but I didn't receive one. I did this several more times and still nothing.-- 207.200.116.203 21:33, 3 August 2006 (UTC) Axeman
I've noticed that on certain "Talk" pages, e.g. the 2006 Israel-Lebanon Conflict, there is a lot of debate, but no conclusion or action taken. I propose that this is because the discussion is unstructured, and users insert comments wherever relevant, so the discussion doesn't follow a linear pattern (i.e. "Well what about this . . . ", "I disagree . . .", etc.) and no concensus is drawn. I suggest these pages get converted into a forum-based format with posts and threads, like those that are very common on the web. These allow topics to be organized by subject and posts are ordered by date, with the ability to "reply" to someone directly. I know this is a big suggestion and would require a lot of reorganization and system changes and I'm a very new member of the community, so I don't expect to be taken completely seriously. But, on the other hand, I thought if no one suggests it, then that's a greater loss. Also, there are many applications that are designed to implement online forums, so executing this might not be so hard. Mhsia 18:20, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Is it just me, or has the top margin of the contents (the stuff below the tabs) shifted upwards a bit? For example, see my my user page. The title "User:Deepujoseph" used to be in level with "a.k.a thunderboltz". The problem seems to be happening only on en.wiki.-- thunderboltza.k.a.D eepu Joseph | TALK13:04, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Anyone know why if there's a left thumbnail image in a bullet list the list is not indented properly (at least in classic skin with Safari)? See, for example, Denver, Colorado#Airports vs. Denver, Colorado#Landmarks. I've added explicit divs 50px wider than the thumbnails in the Landmarks section to "fix" this, but doing this should clearly not be necessary. -- Rick Block ( talk) 14:08, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
?useskin=monobook
to the URL to see it yourself). Monobook seems to use a wider right margin on left thumbnails (the float only pushes the text; the bullets are attached to the left of the text, living inside the margin; if the margin is too short, they'll end up under the image). --
cesarb 16:31, 28 July 2006 (UTC)<div class="thumb tleft">
. Does tleft need to be defined in
standard.css? Is there some reason it's not in
common.css? --
Rick Block (
talk) 19:07, 28 July 2006 (UTC)tleft
is on
monobook/main.css on monobook and on
common/common.css on classic/standard (see
Wikipedia:Catalogue of CSS classes for the other skins). Since it can vary depending on the skin (for instance, some skins might want to use a different colour for the borders), it should not be at
MediaWiki:Common.css. --
cesarb 19:47, 28 July 2006 (UTC)border-width: .5em 1.4em .8em 0;
to
common/common.css (this is in the monobook version)? Are these CSS files controlled through
Bugzilla? --
Rick Block (
talk) 03:53, 29 July 2006 (UTC)I have been trying to figure out this for a long time. Is it possible to have an image on an article that links to a page other than that image's info page? I could really use some help. BrainiacOutcast 18:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi,
The articles Bet and BET are different. Likewise, Net and NET. I'm trying to create an article at OGA, but I keep on getting Oga when I type it into search. What am I missing here? - Richardcavell 05:15, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
Today, a lot of the time, when I revert using "popups" it looks like it is being changed, but in the end nothing has happened. If I manually take an older version and edit and save it, same problem, I just tried to remove some vandalism around 10 times over a five minute period. I then switched to another computer, and got the same problem. -- Brat32 04:55, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
What does the new "account creation blocked" flag do with respect to blocking registered users? My guess is: blocks account creation with the same duration and scope that the "autoblock" would have blocked edits. But is that what actually is happening? 192.75.48.150 18:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
If an edit is reverted (by an admin, not just manually), is the edit still listed on the user's contributions, recent changes etc., or does it vanish forever? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dbmag9 ( talk • contribs) 15:21, 2 August 2006
Does anyone know of a program that can convert a spreadsheet (csv, xls, OpenOffice, or whatever) automatically to MediaWiki Markup, to produce a table? Obviously all formulas etc would not be convertible, but it would be really useful to be able to convert a spreadsheet which just contains numbers and text strings.
The reason I ask this is that I am trying to sort out the statistics on the page for the soccer player Pele. His goalscoring record is a matter of some debate, but even official sites such as fifa.com list him as having scored over 1000 goals. I have got a list (spreadsheet) of every match Pele played in, and wanted to put it up on a subpage of the Pele article, so that Wikipedians could go through it and note which matches are legitimate and which weren't (e.g., matches Pele played for the Army during national service, commercial tours of the Far East he undertook while playing for New York Cosmos, etc.). My initial estimate is that Pele scored only 700 odd goals in 800 odd official matches: around 500 or so goals short of the total that is normally given!
I think this is a really important bit of work, as the entire world seems confused (or just plain wrong!) as to how many goals Pele scored. I don't think it counts as original research, either; just a really, really, really complicated reference. So, if anyone knows of a way of converting a spreadsheet to Mediawiki Markup, please let me know! Jim ( Talk) 11:41, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
At the top of everybody's watchlist there is a note saying:
I would argue that the link about "removing all items" is not necessary there, and rather belongs in the "Edit watchlist" page, accessible from the watchlist (so that first you see what items you have on your watchlist before deciding if you want to remove all them or not).
Comments on that welcome at MediaWiki talk:Watchdetails#Link to clear the whole watchlist. Oleg Alexandrov ( talk) 03:06, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
For those developers who would rather put their scripts in a central repository, I have created User:Userscripts. (It seems that scripts can't be hosted anywhere outside of the User namespace.) Instructions for setting up a script there can be found on the userpage. Just FYI. Ingoolemo talk 23:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Where is the favicon file stored for wikis? If I want to upload a file to use as the favicon for a wiki, can I, or do I have to contact a developer and send it to them? In particular I mean Wikimedia Incubator, which is currently using the same as the Wikipedia favicon. — D a niel (‽) 17:19, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I recently changed template:Infobox Union from the "hiddenStructure" format to Qif. Unfortunately, now there are several lines of white space being produced on the top of articles using the ‘box. Bluemoose posted a solution on the UNISON article by filling in the empty fields, but that's pretty problematic in the long run. Any suggestion?
{| class="infobox" style="width: 25em; text-align: left; font-size: 90%; " cellspacing="2" |+ style="font-size: 1.25em;" | '''{{{name}}}''' {{#if:{{{image|}}}|<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">{{{image|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{full_name|}}}|<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">{{{full_name|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{native_name|}}}|<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">''{{{native_name|}}}''</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{founded|}}}|<tr><th>'''Founded'''</th><td>{{{founded|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{current|}}}|<tr><th>'''Cur. affiliation date'''</th><td>{{{current|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{dissolved_date|}}}|<tr><th>'''Date dissolved'''</th><td>{{{dissolved_date|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{merged_into|}}}|<tr><th style="padding-left: 1em;">'''{{{ dissolved_state|Merged into}}}'''</th><td>{{{merged_into}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{members|}}}|<tr><th>'''Members'''</th><td>{{{members|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{country|}}}|<tr><th>'''Country'''</th><td>{{{country|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{head|}}}|<tr><th>'''Head union'''</th><td>{{{head|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{affiliation|}}}|<tr><th>'''Affiliation'''</th><td>{{{affiliation|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{people|}}}|<tr><th>'''Key people'''</th><td>{{{people|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{office|}}}|<tr><th>'''Office location'''</th><td>{{{office|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{website|}}}|<tr><th>'''Website'''</th><td>{{{website|}}}</td></tr>}} {{#if:{{{footnotes|}}}|<tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: smaller;">{{{footnotes|}}}</td></tr>}} |}<noinclude>[[Category:Infobox templates|Union]]</noinclude>
Thanks.-- Bookandcoffee 17:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
{{#if:{{{image|}}}|<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">{{{image|}}}</td></tr>}} <!-- -->{{#if:{{{full_name|}}}|<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;">{{{full_name|}}}</td></tr>}}
Thanks for the help - it is greatly appreciated. -- Bookandcoffee 10:22, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
hi, i would like to write an article about myself, but i cant seem to move/rename it to Bloodpack ---> Ferdinand Ramos Barba anyone help? thanks † Bloodpack argh! 13:12, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Why is there a break at the top of UNISON? Usually I can get rid of such things, but I'm stumped. Melchoir 11:40, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way to link an image to an article instead of the image's own page? -- farukahmet ( talk) 11:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
It seems I must have one login per language I want to contribute in. Are there any plans for making the logins span all languages in the future? I would very much like to know the reason why a seperate login is required for every language. Manos1394 10:22, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
ATF: I am not sure where to ask for help on this troubleshooting issue with a template, but perhaps someone here can direct me to the right area of wikipedia. I have been trying to create a template to allow easy surfing between entries on U.S. Cavalry units, but I have trouble getting the text to wrap around it rather than start in line with the template. Consequently, wherever the template is placed in the entry, that is where the entry begins (instead of at the top and then wrapping around the template when it gets to it). An example is better than words: visit U.S. 1st Cavalry Division and then see if you can fix the problem in the template at Template:Cavalry. Thanks, User:Atfyfe
Just tried to edit a page and this error keeps comming up. Martial Law 04:02, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
While placing Glenn Spencer's name in the catagory of notable people from Arizona, the save function is'nt working @ this time. Martial Law 05:05, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
If a user keeps posting the same external link to multiple articles and I keep removing it (within a 24 hour period), am I in violation of the Wikipedia:Three-revert rule? -- Brat32 01:32, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I'd like to use images from a non-English version of Wikipedia, licensed GFDL, and with clumsy names. I am not the author. Should I try to upload them to Commons (no experience with that), or should I simply re-upload them in the English version, with meaningful names? ( original question). -- Cameltrader 00:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
In this example in my sandbox, I have tried including a <ref> inside an article that is then transcluded into another. As you can see, the reference doesn't appear when the <References /> tag is invoked in the master page, even though the ID (in this case 4) given to the transcluded reference takes the master page IDs into account.
Is there a way to do this, even if the transcluded IDs come after all the master IDs, regardless of position within the displayed item? Any thoughts or suggestions appreciated! regards Lynbarn 13:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I've found several IP addresses posting spam, they seem to operate in bursts, waiting a week and then coming back. Is there any way that I can get notified if they make another post, so I can go check if it is more spam? -- Brat32 05:14, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
Several user pages have an index box that lists all the double == headings. But when I look at them, I cannot figure out how it's added. -- Brat32 05:14, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to get a "last diff" tab and I've been experimenting and nothing works. I'm trying on this account so I don't mess up my other monobook. Could I get some help? {{subst:User:GangstaEB/Sig}} 00:28, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
function addOnload(eventLoad) { if (window.addEventListener) window.addEventListener("load", eventLoad, false); else if (window.attachEvent) window.attachEvent("onload", eventLoad); } function addlilink(tabs, url, name, id){ var na = document.createElement('a'); na.href = url; na.appendChild(document.createTextNode(name)); var li = document.createElement('li'); li.id = id; li.appendChild(na); tabs.appendChild(li); return li; } function addTab(url, name, id, title, key){ var tabs = document.getElementById('p-cactions').getElementsByTagName('ul')[0]; addlilink(tabs, url, name, id, title, key); } addOnload(function() { addTab(document.getElementById('ca-history').getElementsByTagName('a')[0].href.replace( /action=history/, 'diff=0' ), 'last diff', 'ca-diff'); });
the logo within a university box at Christ Church, Oxford refuses to go into the center - why is this, and how can it be fixed? [[User:Wikiman}} 22.51, 30 July 2006
Occasionally I get an error that the database is locked with reason "investigating server problem", followed by the text that I'm about to edit (which means it is not cached). When I refreshed, everything worked fine. Is this a possible spillover from what happened about a week ago? - Mailer Diablo 16:19, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
What must I do to get Chinese characters to display properly within Wikipedia articles? At the moment, I just get a small square for each Chinese character. Other languages such as Burmese display OK
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Gallicurci 09:31, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Gah, who came up with that idea? ⇒ JarlaxleArtemis 04:48, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, that was a close one. ⇒ JarlaxleArtemis 05:15, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
In the past several months, my version of Safari (Safari 2.0.4) for the Macintosh OS X system (version 10.4.7) has consistently produced "garbage" characters when your pages change typestyles for such things as references.
This was not always so. I had been using Safari on your pages for several years with no problem seeing all the intended characters.
Can you tell me whether this is due to a change in the way your stylesheets call out the fonts, or whether there is something wrong with my Safari? If you know it, can you tell me what to do to fix it?
Thanks very much!
--Dave Shugarts
Is it possible in any way to include a list of all the pages in a category into an article? -- Cormallen 18:36, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Are some images more processing-intensive than others? I was under the impression that image resizing and rendering was done only once (say, the first time an image is requested at ##px), so even if complex svg rendering is required, it wouldn't particularly matter. However, a user has expressed concern that some large images should not be used for stub templates because of their high server load. Is there truth to this? ~ Booya Bazooka 14:47, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
Please see User:Daniel.Bryant. How do I remove the lines which appear on top the image when you put your mouse on them? If you know, and have a minute to spare, feel free to fix it, as it'd be much appreciated. Cheers, Killfest2— Daniel.Bryant 08:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
.clicktemplate a:hover { text-decoration: none !important; }
Where can I find the code and MediaWiki template that allows someone to return to the last page he/she was viewing after logging in? -- Wikitravel Sapphire 04:54, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
&returnto=pagename
(where pagename is the name of the page you are on).<form name="userlogin" method="post" action="/?title=Special:Userlogin&action=submitlogin&type=login&returnto=pagename">
. When you submit the form, the html generates (from that parameter) the meta tag to take you to that page: <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10;url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pagename" />
in the html.<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="10;url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pagename" />
in the html.The website is a major reference site for us at WikiProject NASCAR and WikiProject IROC. The website is now called racing-reference.info (note the changed extension). I need to change all "racing-reference.com" strings to "racing-reference.info". I have an AWB, but I don't know how to program it to do the task. Any suggestions? -- Royalbroil 21:15, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
Strangely I can connect using Firefox, but IE won't see WP. Was alright until recently. Perhaps WP board have come to their sense and banned IE users? No? I thought not. Any ideas? (P.S. I can see wiktionary) Rich Farmbrough 00:50 29 July 2006 (GMT).
Ever since I blocked User:Azproductions (company username), the autoblocker has continously produced many autoblocks over several days ( [6]). I've tried clearing them, but it didn't work. Is there a way to stop the autoblocks? Thanks. -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 17:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
I am regularly the victim of collateral damage caused by blocks to User:202.156.6.54, an IP shared by most Singapore users. This has caused me Wikistress, and to lash out at times. Recently, there were several changes to the blocking policy which are intended to prevent such collateral damage. However, they have not been successful at eliminating the problem. I am still the victim of collateral damage caused by autoblocks, although they are not as common, and I am no longer blocked in the event of regular IP blocks. Please note that autoblocks usually last much longer - several hours, compared to 15 minutes to a few hours for regular blocks. Therefore, I am pushing for further changes to the blocking policy and MediaWiki software, to prevent collateral damage by autoblocks. For example, autoblocks could be made optional. -- J.L.W.S. The Special One 15:06, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
Any thoughts on this? The St Louis Cardinals logo (:Image:Saint Louis Cardinals Logo.svg) is not coming up at St. Louis Cardinals. For comparison, the Chicago Cubs and other teams' logos come up fine. The logo file exists, seems to be about the same size as the Cubs' logo, and the code uses in the MLB infobox (which calls the logos) appears identical. Kind of puzzled here. Herostratus 21:00, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Myself and a few others were wondering if its possible to hide references that take up a large amount of space, specifically on the 2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict page, as there are almost 150 references as of now. Thanks! Frinkahedr0n 20:03, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
It might be a bit too non-traditional, but you could use a <div style="overflow:auto">...
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-- Interiot 02:02, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
Could someone tell me what fonts are supported for SVGs? Or more specifically, if I was to upload an SVG with DejaVu Sans (as a referenced font, not embedded) could MediaWiki render it correctly? I want to upload SVG renderings of a number of Unicode characters not in most fonts, which are currently GIF and I need to know if I can use DejaVu Sans as text or will I have to convert it to standard SVG paths (easy, but larger size than if it was text) - Рэд хот 15:00, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Can someone fix the wikiness of this article? The first three "edit" links are groups halfway down the third section in the middle of a paragraph -- Kendrick7 20:43, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
A problem has appeared with the operation of category pages. Category:Articles with invalid ISBNs contains entries for articles that are not in the category. Alan Pascoe 22:23, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
-- 62.147.112.177 10:00, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Er, is there no developer on this board? Should it be posted somewhere else? Zero answer seems weird for such a straightforward yes/no question. 62.147.38.54 13:29, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
What is Compost doing in the "What links here" results for "Tiberian Hebrew"? [8] There are other entries in that list that probably don't belong there either. Is there something inaccurate about "What links here"? -- Hoziron 12:26, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm trying to edit the above article, but I am running into a problem with footnotes. In ordinary circumstances this page should have 21 footnotes - but as you will see on the page, these 21 have increased to 42. For some reason the first 21 are listed as per usual, then the list is repeated for 22 through to 42. Furthermore, the footnotes in the text now start from number 22, rather than number 1. Can anyone shed any light on the problem?
Xdamr talk 23:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I notice that these are frequently added to articles such as here but they do not display. What do they do, please? TerriersFan 22:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Putting this in its own section because tons of people seem to be having this problem right now.
Adding ?action=purge to the URL of the page you are having problems with (load the page, then in the address bar, add ?action=purge to the end of the URL and press Enter) seems to fix the problem with doubled footnotes and references that don't work, at least for some people. It worked for me with the Millsaps College article I edited yesterday. I'm not sure this is a permanent fix for the article itself; it may just fix your browser, but I guess it's worth trying.
Credit goes to User:Gimmetrow in the "Mysterious problem involving footnotes and citation templates" above. -- Tkynerd 13:44, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
As I've been adding a lot of references lately to an article, I've also come across this problem. And I noticed something interesting, thay may hint at the cause of the problem. Editing a section creates a different result than editing the entire page. The footnotes or references start with those that are placed in that section or below, and then the entire article is scanned again, which results in only some footnotes or references being doubled. If you edit the entire page, it essentially does the same, resulting in a complete doubling. Errabee 14:44, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
This is a good fix, but still very annoying. The doubling effect has happened on three articles I have edited references for -- starting yesterday. -- MattWright ( talk) 17:43, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Has anyone put in a bug report to mediawiki? -- Stbalbach 04:00, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
I was just reading Wikipedia:Help_desk#Footnotes_at_Opus_Dei and thought that it was a problem on that end, solved easily by deleting cache etc. But after I editted Every Song Is A Cry For Love, the same error occured to me. The problem is gone and it's does not matter for me much, but I'm wondering if there's a bigger problem at Wikipedia's end. — Jared Hunt August 29, 2006, 13:28 (UTC)
I recently checked the "What links here" for the article Arsenal F.C. (e.g. [9]) and found it now contains a lot of articles pertaining to Italian municipalities (e.g. Camporgiano), a seemingly unrelated topic. I assumed it was something to do with the navigation templates they use ( Template:Province of Lucca) but I can't find any link to Arsenal F.C. within the template, nor anywhere else in the article. Checking the "Related changes" link for Camporgiano [10] produces a list of mostly unrelated articles ( Arab League, Guadeloupe, MSN), none of which are seemingly linked to in the page. Can anyone shed a light as to why? Qwghlm 09:14, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
The job queue is now over 400,000. Could it be that every page on WP is being invalidated and recached? Gimmetrow 16:31, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I tried to make a little List of misnamed theorems, but something went terribly wrong and I can't figure out how to fix the problem. For some mysterious reason, all the arrows pointing to the place where a footnote occurs are doubled in the reference section. Only the second of each pair appears to be functional. Please fix it if you can! --- CH 02:57, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
It seems to come and go. Reloading the page was one of the first things I tried, and it didn't seem to help. To my surprise, just after making the above query, reloading the page did seem to resolve the problem, but this definitely didn't seem to help earlier today. I am still baffled, but the fact that so many are experiencing problems suggests that something in the code might have been broken by a modification earlier today. --- CH 03:09, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
This question is very quickly becoming the MFAQ of the day. Is any permanent solution at hand? -- Lost (talk) 16:23, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I have filed bugzilla:7166, related to this issue. Dragons flight 18:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I have added a colored box to the top of this page to direct people towards the temporary solution (and to avoid even more sections talking about the same problem). -- cesarb 18:50, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
Due to a second instance of vandalism in my archives by users who cannot edit my user talk page (it was sprotected after it had been vandalized multiple times by IPs of banned users) I had decided to create a subpage that I have transcluded into my user talk page. However, I do not want level two headers nor do I want sections by established users to be superceded by possibly vandalous edits by malicious vandals. Is there a way to either
-- Ryūlóng 01:29, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
If you go to the page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/phtml it redirects to Main Page (and uses real http codes to redirect), but if you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phtml it uses the wiki-redirect system to go to PHP.
If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=phtml it wiki-reidrects to PHP and so does ?title=Phtml.
If you go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.phtml it http-redirects to main page.
So i'm guessing it thinks /wiki/phtml is equivelant to /wiki.phtml .
Is there any reason why it thinks a slash is a dot?
GeorgeMoney ( talk) 23:35, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
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(matches any character) when they meant \.
(matches a literal dot). Report it on
bugzilla (product Wikimedia, component General/Unknown), and a developer will fix it later when they have time. --
cesarb 18:35, 29 August 2006 (UTC)I have an odd situation with footnotes on the United States Marine Corps article. The very first such link (1a in the references) doesn't go anywhere. Moreover, the links to the article and current version show different numbers of footnotes.
I have a feeling it's a malformed footnote somewhere, but are there any clues to where it might be?-- Mmx1 23:10, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I don't know what's causing it, but purging ( [12]) fixes it. -- NE2 23:52, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Something has gone wrong with the reference numbers at Miniclip. The references are duplicated and the first inline reference numbers is 8. No obvious cause. -- John Nagle 19:38, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I was editing the article on High Technology High School, and I added a new reference. When I previewed the page, everything seemed right, but when I saved the page, the references were doubled. What I mean by this was that there are six references, but reference one became reference 7, reference two became 8, and so on. Has anyone encountered this before, or will it fix itself?
-- BadgerOfDarkness 19:23, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Help, Mr. Wizard!
No matter how many times I click that button to send a confirmation e-mail to my address, I never receive a single one. They're not even spam-blocked; they just don't come. It's been 12 hours since my first try, and even that one hasn't arrived. I don't use a free address (e.g., hotmail, gmail, etc.), it's a standard e-mail address. I have no idea what's going on here...-- TServo2049 17:23, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
That preference has nothing to do with email address confirmation. 86.134.92.120 04:57, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Hello - I am having the same problem, but it's with the 'forget password' link. I do forget my password, but a new one is never emailed to me when I click that link. Help!
Is Wikipedia servers in Florida prepared for this thing ? IF it hits where they currently think it'll hit, the storm may take down Wikipedia. Ready for a Hurricane ? Martial Law 05:43, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
There are contingencies established at various levels to handle this sort of thing. 86.134.92.120 04:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
Lately, a few times a day, when I'm accessing Wikipedia, my Firefox browser pops up a message about a script that can't run & gives me the choice of stopping it. Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here? (If you do, could you possibly answer here and ping me on my user talk page to let me know to come look? Thanks in advance.) - Jmabel | Talk 18:57, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
On wikipedia to edit a semiprotected page a user must have a 4-day old account, but on my wiki (MediaWiki 1.6) a user only needs the account no mater how old it is. What is the cause of the difference? 213.94.234.66 21:24, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Quick answer; the autoconfirmed group isn't switched on by default; set $wgAutoConfirmAge = 86400 * 4;
in LocalSettings.php to do this.
86.134.92.120 05:00, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
In the past hour or so, http://svn.wikimedia.org ( m:MediaWiki_extensions) has been down. I've looked at some of the status sites, but it's hard to interpret the results on them. Anyone know of the best place to go to check on the most up-to-date mediawiki and wikimedia server status? -- J. J. 17:45, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
Since the Bugzilla page requires registration that includes an e-mail address, I am unable to use it to submit this bug report: The Links 2.1pre4 web browser can no longer view English Wikipedia content as of August 23, 2006 (and possibly up to a month before that). Any attempt to load a Wikipedia page results in much garbage being displayed, instead of readable text. A lot of the garbage shown in the display consists mostly of asterisks (*) and periods (.) with a few alphanumeric characters and punctuation marks.
Spanish, German, and Netherlands Wikipedia are still readable, and all languages are readable in Mozilla and Lynx.
72.49.64.171 08:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
For some days I've been getting a weird error while trying to access some pages on Wikipedia. It's mostly for the Main Page but I've noticed some other pages have this problem as well. I have uploaded a screenshot of the error here:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/_sleepflower/wikierror.jpg
(It's in Dutch but I trust everyone is familiar with it; it basically asks me if I want to save a file called "Main_Page" that is of unknown format.) I tried to access the Main Page here but all I got was this weird error. This has happened on and off for the last few days, sometimes disappearing and then reappearing again. It seems to be only a problem in IE, as I am using Firefox right now (I couldn't access the technical help page in IE, got the error again) and it works just fine. I use Windows XP with IE 6. Anyone know what this is? 62.163.35.231 10:44, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
In your preferences, under the 'Editing' section, make sure "Use external editor by default" and "Use external diff by default" are off. Prodego talk 13:41, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
I am having the same problem too, got IE 6...I tried restoring to defaults and it is still not working, I can't access the main page or some articles...is something wrong with my comp...or wikipedia?
My guess is something with wikipedia and IE. Firefox seems to work just fine. I also did not have an account when trying this. Have logged into multiple machines with multiple versions of IE 6 running and all exhibit this behaviour.
The main page is working for me now...but still some of the articles are still not working for me...I don't have a account either.
I've found that it can work at times, then try the same page again and the Main_Page download prompt occurs again...
The main page isn't working for me once again as aren't some articles...what is odd...the articles not working for me...keeps on changing. This is very werid.
Special:Contributions/203.134.131.18
My interpretation of the sequence of events here is:
Is my interpretation of the technical details of the new message process correct? That is, an IP address receives a new message flag even if they are only reading WP from that address, and no matter how old that message is? That's unfortunate, isn't it? 192.75.48.150 19:02, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Sorry if this has already been discussed elsewhere, but I've been having a weird new display bug since this morning: In IE with monobook skin, the top link bar (the one that contains user page - "my talk" - "my preferences" etc.) is displayed normally as right-aligned, but shifts to left-aligned the moment I hover the mouse over it. (Irritating, if you come to think of it.) It's on all Wikimedia sites apparently. Has some central style sheet been changed recently? Fut.Perf. ☼ 11:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Exists now, just thought I'd let you know. Happy editing-- {anon iso − 8859 − 1 janitor} 23:54, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
When I use this computer that I'm on currently, and I use the Back Page function to go to the Recent Changes page, instead of giving me the page as it looked at the time that I was last there, it gives me a refereshed page. Any ideas on why? This doesn't happen on my PC at home. I'm using IE 7 here and IE 6 at home, could that be the reason? User:Zoe| (talk) 22:14, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
This problem is similar to that just reported by Mattisse. I'm adding information with cites to Myopia, but I just noted that a number of cites are doubled or appear multiple times in the References section. I can't figure out what I may have done wrong. Thanks! - AED 21:31, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
The article is called Parchman. For some reason the footnote citations show up twice when I save the aricle. However, upon preview there are the correct number which is three.
Something is doubling the footnote citations and I can't figure out what. Help would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure it is something simple that I'm just not seeing! Mattisse (talk) 21:18, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Every time I log in using Monobook skin, all hyperlinks appear underlined. It's fixable by clearing my browser cache, but in doing so I lose the download time benefits of having the pages cached. (Note: I use Internet Explorer). C. M. Harris Talk to me 19:38, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
I installed mediawiki software on my server and it works well. There is only one thing missing. Not every template is included. How do I install additional features so that the mediawiki software that I have installed becomes exactly like the one which is running wikipedia.org
Are there additional plugins, etc available which have to be installed.
For example, the following tags <ref></ref> are not parsed and look like tags only. The method that I have used is to iimport xml dumps using importdump.php and then browse the pages .
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.163.2.66 ( talk • contribs) 13:25, August 28 2006 (UTC)
I am sure this question has been asked before but I can't find an answer anywhere. I am working on a series of articles for buildings in a suburb. Each building has its own article. I want to show a map of the suburb (which I have) with each building marked. When a reader clicks on the individual building on the map, it will take them to the Wikipedia article for that building. I haven't seen this done anywhere before on Wikipedia - any ideas? amitch 05:50, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
An idea which is floated from time to time on WT:DYK is to apply for adminship on commons, as often images from Commons need to appear on the Wikipedia front page, and the current process is to save the image from commons, reupload it, protect it, and then delete it once it has gone from the front page. Adminship on Commons would save a lot of time as it removes the need to reupload the image. However, if an image is protected on Commons, does it automatically get protected on all other projects, or could I potentially upload another image to Wikipedia under the same name, thus circumventing the protection? smurrayinch ester( User), ( Talk) 07:03, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Using Firefox, the TOCs on all Wikipedia pages are gone. (I still see them using IE.) As nobody else has complained, it is probably just me, and could be something I have inadvertently done with the browser settings, but I have absolutely no idea what that could be. Any ideas? Tupsharru 06:35, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
Is there a way to determine an editor's IP? For example, I would be interested in knowing the IP that the brand-new User:Olmeque used for his/her first posts. Curiously yours, Madman 20:48, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
The Template:European mathematicians has some serious issues. Could some kind person please try to fix it? You can see what is doing to all affected categories by taking a look at Category:German mathematicians. Thanks! - GilliamJF 19:24, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi everyone, I want to print an article in Wikipedia. So I copy it in Microsoft word, but the wiki style will be lost! How can I transfer the info in wiki to Microsoft word if I don't want to change the style? (Like picture place and math formulas, etc)-- MehranVB talk | cont 14:31, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
I have searched and searched and cannot find the answer. I don't want a border around my image. JadedHeart 09:08, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
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I wasn't using either thumb or frame, and the smilies you posted also have a border around them. I don't want the box to show, I think it probably has something to do with the fact that it is a hyperlink, cuz it was purple and after I clicked on it, it was blue. So I guess my question should have been, "How do I make hyperlinks not be framed?"
JadedHeart 18:33, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
I just changed the name of the upcoming Modest Mouse album to We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, however, I can't figure out how to change it in the box at the bottom of all the MM pages. Can someone help me out here? The "the" is clearly lowercase, so the discography box on the MM pages should reflect that. Evan Reyes 03:16, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
I want to split the table at Huddersfield Town F.C.#Managers over three columns with the headings at the top of each. 'How to', please? BlueValour 21:24, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
Name | Period | Name | Period | Name | Period |
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Fred Walker | 1908–1910 | Richard Pudan | 1910–1912 | Arthur Fairclough | 1912–1919 |
Ambrose Langley | 1919–1921 | Herbert Chapman | 1921–1925 | Cecil Potter | 1925–1926 |
Jack Chaplin | 1926–1929 | Clem Stephenson | 1929–1942 | Ted Magner | 1942–1943 |
Many thanks for this. Just a supplementary; is it possible for a small amount of white background space (as opposed to a blank column) be inserted between each pair of columns, please?
BlueValour 22:42, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
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How to create a menu on an article in wikipedia that can be expanded dynamically with a plus sign? One example is to create a detailed menu of a book, so that it will not take much space. If some one can give me a code and instructions to implement, it'll be great. Thanks in advance. TruthSpreader Talk 15:40, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
How do I link to other wikimedia wikis?-- Mac Lover Talk C 20:40, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
By error I have registered twice ton Wikipedia - after some time of inactivity I couldn't log in so I have registered anew. Now I have found that I have some contribution to both accounts and also some to my IP before I have logged in for the first time. Is it possible to join the three into one account without losing any information? noychoH 19:56, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
When in a diff page, the edit buttons next to a subject heading dissapears. Has anyone else been having this problem? I am using Linux KDE with Firefox 1.5.0.4. Thanks -- liquidGhoul 10:45, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
How long does it take for a new article to make it into the search feature. I search for the title of my article and it does not show up — Preceding unsigned comment added by Involved ( talk • contribs) 01:08, 25 August 2006
On RfA there is usually mention of the number of edits often by type. How do I find out my stats, please? BlueValour 22:08, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
This is an edit request for protected template:cite news. See template talk:cite news#Moving cats and interwikis to doc subpage. I would like to have the new doc page pattern completed there. See also Wikipedia:Template limits. -- Ligulem 16:16, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Is anyone else noticing PNG images disappearing and reappearing in Wikipedia while using Mozilla Firefox for Windows? Is this a browser issue or a Wikipedia issue? (Sorry if this has been brought up before) Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 15:54, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
More info: The PNG image in question has a transparent background and is being used on the WikiProject Louisville page as well as project templates. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:24, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I think the whole idea of Wikipedia is amazing and it has been the main source of my education for a while now. However,There's just one small complaint, I can never download your sound examples! What file type are they? Is there software I can download for this? Am I doing something wrong? Are they not Wav. files? And if not, why not? Please let me know as I am a composer/sound engineer who would benefit greatly from your examples of sine waves and ring modulation etc.
Will be looking forward to a reply
Sonny Collins
The Save Page button is working 1/2 the time or it does NOT work at all. Martial Law 19:18, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
You press the SAVE button, either nothing happens, or you get into a edit conflict - w/ YOURSELF, "Operation has Timed Out" signals. Or it freezes. Martial Law 18:33, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I uploaded an article this morning, and can't find it when I browse Google or Wikipedia search. Is there something I need to do so that the page shows up? --— Preceding unsigned comment added by Annakup ( talk • contribs)
In the Duke Nukem Forever page, I just tried to add three refs pointing to already existing refs - but only one of them works (#22). The other two (#18 and #19) don't show up at all, instead becoming empty refs down at #23 and #24. THis puzzles me and I am wondering where I messed up. Hbdragon88 03:40, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
<ref name=xxx>
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Rick Block (
talk) 04:11, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
Why is it that whenever I post something to Wikipedia it dosen't show my user id at the end like it does for other people. I don't know if this is called the signature or not on this system or if I haven't set it up correctly or what the deal is. Any assistance anyone out there can provide me with would be most appreciated.
e-mail removed to prevent spam —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rockerrb ( talk • contribs) 2006-08-23 19:39:07 (UTC).
After reverting vandalism on Sunscreen, I added to the offending user's talk page:
{{subst:test3-n|Sunscreen}} ~~~~
The preview looked okay, except Sunscreen was redlinked. Assuming I fat fingered it, did the copy and paste again. It was still red linked and there was no obvious problem with spelling—and it didn't seem to be a day when a word like the defied correct spelling.
A while later the red vexed me, calling for more investigation. Clicking the redlink edits a new article named Sunscreen %E2 %80 %8E (spaces added for clarity). Those codes all seem displayable, though checking UTF-8 references, I got more confused: they could be gamma, cedilla, A umlaut. Or they could be circumflex a, control, single shift 2.
— EncMstr 18:33, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I'm not sure sure if this is the right place to ask this... so sorry if I posted on the wrong page. I'd like to extract the link structure of the whole wikipedia to create a (pretty large) link graph and do some research. Maybe you can give me some hints where and how to start. Regards Cyc 12:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
Normally, WikiProject templates are placed on the talk pages of articles catalogued for those projects, with the talk pages then automatically categorized for the project. Thus, showing "Related Changes" for the WikiProject category will show the latest changes to the talk pages of those articles. Is there a straightforward way to show "Related Changes" for the latest changes to the articles attached to those talk pages? Thanks. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 20:50, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
Could someone please explain to me what we gain by having a category with 21,008 pages that miss citations? -- Ligulem 23:41, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
I have a template with some nasty nested #if blocks. I can live with the nesting, but it would be kind of nice there was something like If condition then Exit
Where exit would end any further processing of the template. No more wikitext, no more parser functions would be evaluated.
I assume this, or a workalike does not exist. Correct? - Mak Thorpe 01:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
<div> This part always shows <div style="{{#if:{{{hide|}}}|display:none}}"> This only shows if hide is undefined, and does not require a wrapping parserfunction. </div> </div>
I'm not sure whether I should report this to Bugzilla, but I post this nonetheless. If you look at the special character insert tools below, there are two <includeonly></includeonly>
"buttons." Nothing urgent, but I think it should be taken care of at some point. —
Jared Hunt August 22, 2006, 13:33 (UTC)
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Jared Hunt August 22, 2006, 23:36 (UTC)When going to Aletheia I see an older version, instead of the most recent version I see when clicking the "edit this page" tab. -- Lambiam Talk 03:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
For some reason when I try to use the "edit this page" link on an existing article, or attempt to create a new one, I have an "index.php" sent by the wikipedia server to my client. Here's an example from this very page:
[Process] Type=Edit text Engine=MediaWiki Script= http://en.wikipedia.org/ Server= http://en.wikipedia.org Path=/w Special namespace=Special [File] Extension=wiki URL= http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29&action=edit&internaledit=true
To actually edit the page, I have to extract the URL from the above and paste it into my browser. It seems to me that this should be some internal in-server thing causing an HTTP redirect to be issued maybe. My browser version is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060508 Firefox/1.5.0.4
If I use the "edit" link from any section heading on a page, it does work as expected.
(Sorry if this is rather a bugzilla candidate.) -- BACbKA 17:05, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
I just tried a search for 'Harmony guitars'. It gave me the 'No such page' message and a series of links, none of which went ot 'Harmony company', which is where the information actually resides.
How do I put a link from a particular search to the page on which this information resides. In this case, how do I redirect the search 'Harmony guitars' to the 'Harmony company' page? The only thing I can think of is to create a Harmony guitars page and put a link to the company page, but that seems untidy. I've searched the help pages, but I've either been looking in the wrong place or the info's not there. Deke42 16:51, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
Why does the menu (either the "Sign in/Create" or the User Menu( username, talk, contibution,preferance .. at the top of the page) jump from one side to the other (usually from Right ro left) as the mouse pointer reaches it and then stays at the Other end( sort of catch me if you can!!). And i "misclick" on the wikipedia image rather on my user page. I have noticed this in my other Language (Malayalam WIki too)..why does this happen...I just checked a fellow wikipedian and seems like this is not same for every body? Thanks activevoid ( talk) 17:03, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
I created another template but would like to center it within the article, as it is currently placed on the left side (as by default). How can I enable this formatting? 67.37.227.115 21:17, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
align=center
" to the first line. If it's some other sort of block, with a style, you can add "margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;
" to the style (which will work for most browsers). The old-fashioned HTML method of surrounding it with {{center| ... }}
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Rick Block (
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I've looked for hours for the answer to this.
When I click on "edit this page" widnows responds that the file extension *.php is used by "picture it" instead of opening the edit screen like this one. It does it when I try to invoke the sandbox as well
My firewall settings are default and I tried turning the firewall off for a moment to try to get to the edit screen.
I've looked at mediawiki and that appears to be server software rather than a way to edit or add new articles.
What's up?
I have a standard template that has a narrow width. Is it possible to actually wrap text to the side of it? It can be found here: Template:UChicago2
mcshadypl 01:57, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
{| style='border:1px solid #dddddd; background-color:#fefefe; padding:3px; margin:0px'
{| style='border:1px solid #dddddd; background-color:#fefefe; padding:3px; margin:0px' width='WIDTHpx'
Currently, there is no default formatting for Wikitable captions, which makes them look small and ugly by default:
Registration | Type | Name | In service | Remarks |
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NC18601 | 314 | Honolulu Clipper | 1939-1945 | Sunk by US Navy |
NC18602 | 314 | California Clipper | 1939-1950 | Later renamed Pacific Clipper and sold to World Airways. Scrapped 1950. |
NC18603 | 314 | Yankee Clipper | 1939-1943 | Started Transatlantic mail service. Crashed February 22, 1943 in Lisbon, Portugal. |
NC18604 | 314 | Atlantic Clipper | 1939-1946 | Salvaged for parts. |
NC18605 | 314 | Dixie Clipper | 1939-1950 | Started transatlantic passenger service, later sold to World Airways. Scrapped 1950. |
NC18606 | 314 | American Clipper | 1939-1946 | Later sold to World Airways. Scrapped 1950. |
NC18609 | 314A | Pacific Clipper | 1941-1946 | Later sold to Universal Airlines. Damaged by storm and salvaged for parts. |
NC18611 | 314A | Anzac Clipper | 1941-1951 | Sold to Universal Airlines 1946, American International Airways 1947, World Airways 1948. Sold privately 1951, destroyed at Baltimore, Maryland 1951. |
NC18612 | 314A | Cape Town Clipper | 1941-1946 | Sold to: U.S. Navy - 1942, Sold to: American International Airways - 1947, Sunk at sea by the U.S. Coast Guard on October 14, 1947 |
This can easily be rectified by adding table.wikitable caption, table.prettytable caption { font-size: larger; font-weight: bold; }
to
MediaWiki:Common.css.
Ingoolemo
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I'm about to make a non-commercial web-site for common use. It will contain local information for users comming from all over the globe. In order to implement the localization I need a database with the names of the cities(in english and in the native language of the country, the city is located in). Wikipedia provides such kind of information for the cities in the world. My question is - may I get this database from Wikipedia? maybe, somebody could make a dump of the part of the Wikipedias database with the tables with the information about the cities in the world into a text(csv)-file and make it available for download(it should take just severel minutes)? the information that I need is that one that appears in a small table once you look up a citie's name - name of the city in the native language, in english, position in administrative hierarchie, zip, international telephone code, etc.
thank you in advance Vladimir Pekar-- 85.250.184.182 19:36, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Everytime I edit anything, maybe even here, I get kicked OFF this site. Martal Law 19:27, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Nope. See above. Also consult http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html for information on how to ask questions in the right manner. 86.134.49.147 23:00, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Martial Law, could you please clarify what you mean by "kicked off this site"? Do you mean blocked from editing by an administrator as a result of your edits, or an actual technical issue? - Mark 12:09, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
The section edit links along the right hand side of articles were small (superscript-looking) in Internet Explorer 6. They are full-sized text in Internet Explorer 7. Not sure if this is a problem with our site or IE7. - Mark 03:23, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
I've prepared a comparison image of the rendering in IE6 and IE7 (the article in question is Closed London Underground stations). The comparison image is here. I wonder what the "intended" way it's meant to look is. - Mark 11:27, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
this is a serious problem and more common than people imagine. see my post, "Articles and their appearance in IE 6" (post #73) above. it needs to be addressed urgently. (sorry if i sound dramatic -- but the problem is serious) -- Mowglee 16:45, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Some of the images that I have uploaded have not appeared in Wikipedia articles. For example: Cowdivine.jpg in Sacred Cow, VCAstadiumnagpur.jpg in Nagpur. How do I fix this and avoid such errors in the future? Thanks! Wikindian 20:21, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
I just became an admin over at incubator:, and so I've been deleting some pages. When you look at the restore option after a page has been deleted, you can choose which revisions to restore. Couldn't this be used to do this same thing as the oversight ability, to get rid of libelous information? — D a niel (‽) 16:12, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Deleting an entire page and then selectively undeleting revisions means more work for the database servers, and it's caused problems in the past (deleting George W. Bush, for instance)...in addition, there's no guarantee that another administrator won't attempt to remove another dodgy revision in future, and if they do, they may very well forget to unselect other troublesome revisions, undoing your work.
Finally, as pointed out, use of Oversight and Hiderevision means that the deleted data is taken somewhere that core MediaWiki is unaware of, so it's invisible. 86.134.49.147 23:09, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Can someone explain why a search for Cornwall gives 100% relevance to Cornwallis and only 95% to Cornwall? - -- Mad Bill 11.13 17/08/2006
That's all well and good, but what if the user's referring to the internal search engine, which isn't using any Google algorithms? 86.134.49.147 23:04, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
Articles look formatted differently in different browsers. For instance,
can someone enlighten me? -- Mowglee 09:23, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
i have figured it out. in IE6, i changed "view-->encoding--->Unicode (UTF-8" to "view-->encoding--->user defined." and all my problems are gone. -- Mowglee 10:15, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
Can someone who knows more about this than I do explain how caching is handled for pages with references to the {{CURRENTDAY}} and similar time sensitive variables? For example, the main page transcludes {{Wikipedia:Today's featured article/{{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}, {{CURRENTYEAR}}}}. What prompts this page to be regenerated (with the new day's featured article summary) and put in the squid caches every day? Do the Apaches really compute an expiry time based on which of these are present in the page and add an EXPIRES HTTP header or something (in which case, does including {{CURRENTTIME}} on a page effectively make it uncacheable)? I suppose I could go read the code, but if somebody happens to just know please explain. -- Rick Block ( talk) 02:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
The parser cache for each page also expires after a set time which is, IIRC, 24 hours. So if someone forgot to purge a page, it would eventually be updated. 86.134.49.147 23:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
I have a Bug that allows me to log in, some of the time. Most of the time, it does NOT. I'm on a Satellite IP. How do I or someone else can get this rectified ? Someone editing anything with this going on could be mistaken for a sock. On Aug 10-14, there was a meteor shower. Could the satellite be damaged ? I have to use a improvised sig while this is going on. Right now, I can't log in. Martial Law 18:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
You have been told before. Your ISP, like all satellite-based ISPs, uses proxying and caching and all manner of stupidity. There are copious archives on this page regarding the problem; the Chief Technical Officer himself has advised you. Please don't continue to post the same crap on this forum time and time again. Thank you. 86.134.116.228 21:10, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Please see MediaWiki talk:Linkshere, regarding passing a variable in to this display. Thanks! — xaosflux Talk 16:17, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm not quite sure what to call it. Those six links ([User name], my talk, my preferences, my watchlist, my contributions, and log out), I'll just call them the toolbar. Anyways, every so often, all of the links suddenly jump to the very left of the page when you try to click on them. It's not a singular computer problem, because I've seen this happen on three different computers. I've seen this question here before, but the only reply was the very ambiguous and unhelpful comment "Tell Microsoft about it." So, why does the toolbar jump to the left?-- the ninth bright shiner talk 04:36, 5 August 2006 (UTC)