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Can someone clarify (with certainty) the meaning of "allocated portable" in terms of IP status? It's relevant to some blocks in this sockpuppet report. The Whois data is here. Thank you!-- chaser - t 08:48, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
I have my preferences set to underline links, but until today I never noticed the navigation and interaction links on the left being underlined. Has something changed, or am I just going noticing this for the first time? I'm using IE7 for a browser. Coemgenus 15:53, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
I believe this edit did it. Probably needs a partial revert. --- RockMFR 18:11, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
/* Not underlined links in portlets/specialchars even with pref "Underline links:Always" */
.portlet a, #editpage-specialchars a { text-decoration: none }
.portlet a:hover, #editpage-specialchars a:hover { text-decoration: underline }
Can somebody take a look as this issue and see if they can figure out what is wrong? The fontcolor parameter is applying itself correctly to the vde, but not the title and its negatively affecting many templates, such as {{ University of Oklahoma}}. Its protected, so if you see the problem but can't edit the template, let me know. Thanks.↔ NMajdan• talk 20:28, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
title=[[University of Oklahoma|<span style="color:#fff">University of Oklahoma</span>]]
Say you edit an article section to add a new <ref> item. When you Show Preview, the preview shows the article text but not the references, so you don't actually see the change you made. Or if you added text and a reference, you see part of the change you made, but not all of it.
When I run into this problem, I usually work around it by temporarily adding <references/> at the end of the section. Then I Show Preview, fix any errors, remove <references/>, and Save Page. But that's obviously error-prone, because one's instinct is to Save Page as soon as the errors are fixed, and it's all too easy to forget to remove the <references/> tag and have to go back and do it afterwards.
A technical workaround occurs to me. I suggest that if a section being edited contains a <ref> tag but not <references/>, the software should append a template reference like {{preview-references}}, which would expand to something like
--- ''The section being previewed contains the following references, which in '' ''the complete article will appear at the <references/> tag:'' <references/>
Of course, if you're editing only the text of the section and not the references, you don't really need to see them expanded, and they're just an annoyance. An alternative approach would be a separate Preview References button, but that seems like overkill to me.
On a related point, for both a section and an article edit, it would be desirable to trap the case where the article contains one or more <ref> tags without a <references/> tag that will expand them, or where it contains two or more <references/> tags. (Experiment indicates that each <references/> expands all <ref> tags appearing earlier in the article, so there must be exactly one <references/> tag that is after all <ref> tags.) I suggest that when a Show Preview is done, a check should be done on the entire article as it would exist if Save Page was done at this point, and if any of these erroneous situations exist, a warning should be issued (either within the preview window or elsewhere, but prominent enough that it won't be missed).
I think this should be a warning issued at preview time, not an error message preventing the save, because you have to consider what happens when someone adds the first reference to an article. If they do it during a section edit, they don't want to be blocked from saving because they forgot to add a References section first. Similarly, someone doing a cleanup pass through an article from top to bottom in order might add several references, saving sections one at a time, before they get to the end and add References. But they need to be reminded to add that References section.
Or, thinking bigger, perhaps there's a better approach -- although I guess I can't be the first person to think of this, so perhaps there are good reason why it isn't being used. But right now it seems to me as though the Right Thing is to forget the whole idea of explicit <references/> tags -- send a bot through Wikipedia to get rid of them and their associated sections -- and instead simply have the whole section
==References== <references/>
appended implicitly to the wikitext of any article containing a <ref> tag, at the time when the wikitext is rendered into HTML. (Or some equivalent behavior.) And the same for any section when it is being previewed.
This change, of course, would address both of the issues covered in my other two points.
-- 207.176.159.90 23:09, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
In the edit history page of every article, there are links like
Unfortunately, since the history is listed in reverse, the "next 50" in order of listing is the "previous 50" in chronological order, and once I get back past the two pages of entries, I always find myself clicking on the wrong link and going forward in time instead of further back.
Could another wording be found, such as
or
or something like that?
-- 207.176.159.90 05:14, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
I heard that Interiot had a tool that indicated all articles created by a user but the script seems to fail and Interiot is AWOL. I'm not technically-minded at all but if someone who knows of an alternative and could ping my Talk page that'd be great Dick G 05:13, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Over at the Kannada Wikipedia, someone tried to set up a new site notice, but the message does not appear at all now, no matter what it's set to. It's not the site notice ID because the message does not appear for anons either. -- Prince Kassad 12:59, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to customzize my monobook.css so it would display all interwiki links at the bottom of the page instead of a box on the left? Here is a random example from the mediawiki site. --(cubic[*]star( Talk( Email))) 13:55, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi!
I just edited MV Liemba to unlink Liemba which, of course, redirects to MV Liemba. Aren't there bots that do this, like for double-redirects? Or do they need a tweak? Saintrain 18:24, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
If someone knows of a workaround for this issue, I'd like to know what it is too. I couldn't find anything for it in Bugzilla either.
I have some nested collapsible tables coded up roughly as follows:
{|class="collapsible collapsed"
!Outer table header row
|-
| interesting information
|-
|
{|class="collapsible collapsed"
!Inner table header row
|-
| more detailed interesting information
|-
|
{|class="collapsible collapsed"
! Inner inner table header row
|-
| Even more detailed information that's not particularly interesting
|}
|}
|}
Here's what it looks like:
Outer table header row | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
interesting information | |||||
|
All of them should be collapsed by default. But when you expand the outer table, all the inner tables expand as well -- but their "show" links say "show". The Javascript apparently doesn't know they've expanded. When you click on "show" it changes to "hide", but doesn't do anything else. After that, the link works normally.
Any thoughts? TCC (talk) (contribs) 09:58, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorted it. I'd made a silly mistake about the order in which scripts are executed on a page load. It's probably very klugy, so I wonder if someone experienced in JS and the DOM could have a look at it and tell me if I've done anything boneheaded? See User:Csernica/monobook.js. And what might be the chances of getting this into Common.js? TCC (talk) (contribs) 07:26, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I need to override the wikitables class. Specifically, I need to replace its charming #f2f2f2 table header with another color. I tried adding style="background:red;"
to the header to the header row but it seems that the wikitables class takes precedence over my customized style. So how can I override the wikitables class? --
Миборовский 05:14, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
<span class="SheetW" style="color:orange">
and <span style="color:orange" class="SheetW">
are equivalent (i.e. orange). Something similar goes for your example: <h2 class="SheetX SheetZ">
and <h2 class="SheetZ SheetX">
are equivalent.
Anomie 21:34, 21 August 2007 (UTC)..am I the only one who sees an (udnu) button in the middle of the sandbox history page? I checked, it's not in the edit summary, the software is somehow producing a backwards undo button, for this one specific revision!? Backwards AES, or is someone testing some weird javascript, css, or other in the sandbox?--VectorPotential Talk 13:15, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
Can somebody help me here? For some reason, I am unable to upload image files to wp:commons. When I type into the "destination filename" gadget, this weird red light icon flashes next to the gadget, and when I hit the "upload" button, nothing whatever happens. I've tried uploading files from external websites and my own PC, makes no difference. The image copyright selection box is set to "US federal government" so that isn't the problem. Left messages at wp:images and wp:commons village pump but got no response. Thanks. Gatoclass 04:41, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
I am using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8 and Windows Vista. Recently I have been having trouble on Wikipedia doing simple things like getting the cursor to move in the text. Navigating while editing within the text of an article is more and more difficult and unreliable. Easily (and for seemingly no reason) all or parts of the text gets selected (turning blue or gray) and usually I have to leave the page and then return to alleviate this problem. Because I do not have this problem other than on Wikipedia, I am wondering if this is a Wikipedia problem. (Also, it is very easy to lose control - have the text jumping around or scrolling out of control - as if javascript (or whatever) is operating too fast. Am I making sense in this question? Thanks, -- Mattisse 15:59, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
So here's something I just thought of that probably (a) has been asked repeatedly, and (b) is impossible. Would it be technically possible someday to modify Mediawiki to be able to block a certain IP (or, even more usefully, range block some IP's) from editing a particular article?
I thought of it because someone using IP's in the range 41.242.xxx.xxx think this is the most hilarious thing they've ever seen, so they've added it to Libertarianism about 9 times in the last week, using 6 different IP's. If this continues, no solution is really satisfactory: it seems that rangeblocking would be overreacting, as it would block a big chuck of South Africa from editing; page protection isn't good either, as this particular article gets a lot of good edits from IP addresses; and just watchlisting and continually reverting each time and moving on (what I'm doing now) is getting annoying.
Now, if you could range block for just that one article, (or, put another way, protect the page only from a range of IP addresses) you'd only prevent a large portion of South Africa from editing one article for a while, instead of all 2+ million; not perfect, but damn close. Obviously this solution doesn't exist now, but my question is, would it be technically feasible to add this feature? If it's a stupid idea, I'll tuck my tail between my legs and go home; if not, I'll explore Bugzilla for the first time. -- barneca ( talk) 00:59, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
The table in Douglas_MacArthur#Dates_of_rank looks fine for me using Firefox 2.0.0.8. Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11 messes it up -- the vertical line goes through the text in the second column. Ain't CSS grand? -- Boracay Bill 01:59, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
I have a problem with categories showing up too high covering up some text at the bottom of pages. It only happens in IE6, not in Mozilla. It also only happens with this account, when I use another account in IE6 everything is fine. I checked if it was something in my monobook, but couldn't find it. Anyone has any ideas? Garion96 (talk) 14:30, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunately, catlinks is defined in main.css, so I can't touch it (can't see nothing wrong there either). The only thing I did find is this snipplet in IE60fixes.css:
/* Rule 18 of /skins-1.5/monobook/IE60Fixes.css?100 */ #catlinks {POSITION: relative}
I don't know why, but this may be why the category box jumps up sometimes. — Edokter • Talk • 18:19, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Internet Explorers list of CSS quirks is utterly massive. You've probably heard it before, but I highly recommend you switch to a better browser, like Safari or Firefox. At the very least, IE7 fixes a lot IE6's problems; an upgrade wouldn't be a bad idea. EVula // talk // ☯ // 03:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
It's late at night in Perth so this is just a brain wave ... would it be possible/feasible/desirable to make it possible to import page histories from the Nostalgia Wikipedia to this website? Some background: the Nostalgia Wikipedia is a read-only copy of Wikipedia from an 11 December 2001 database dump. However there seems to be some history in Nostalgia.Wikipedia that is not, and never was, stored in the English Wikipedia database. The germ for this idea came when I found the earliest history for saint in the English Wikipedia and compared it to the history in the Nostalgia Wikipedia, and found eleven edits that are stored in Nostalgia Wikipedia but not in the English Wikipedia. There are only 95,321 edits stored in Nostalgia Wikipedia, most of which probably don't need to be imported here. The only problems I can see are that it may mess up the revision ID's (very high numbers will be assigned to very old edits) and we may have problems with the old UseModWiki form of storing IP addresses like 127.0.0.xxx (obfiscating the last octet). Also there will be some CamelCase titles that may or may not be worth importing. Would it be worth it ... would it impact the servers much? And yes, Special:Export would work on Nostalgia Wikipedia. Graham 87 15:25, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
There are several languages that display only as large blocks (either with some sort of character in it, which is completely repeated over and over and over, or just a blank "this character doesn't exist" block). I know that on at least one wiki, there were instructions in the sitenotice for how to display the text properly, but there are a slew that don't have such instructions, and I'd like to find out how what fonts I need to install so that I can view the language properly.
For those that are curious, here's what I'm talking about:
And along the lines of what I'm looking for is my:Wikipedia:Font, which is extremely helpful (though I'd rather not pay $30 just so I can casually edit in a language) or am:Wikipedia:Can't see the font?, or the links on lo.wikipedia and ti.wikipedia. EVula // talk // ☯ // 16:40, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm wondering why Wikipedia recommends the use of obscure file formats such as SVG and OGG. I'm tech-savvy enough to know how to deal with these, but my family isn't. I know there has been an increased focus on improving the accessibility of these formats through built-in automatic rendering, but they're still not nearly as simple to use as the universally accessible JPGs, PNGs, WAVs, or MP3s. Shouldn't Wikipedia emphasize accessibility of information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cromulent ( talk • contribs) 19:48, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Is it just me, or have all non-mainspace pages turned slightly blue? - BANG ! 04:09, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
I tried putting my first image into an article today - a pic of USS Card into the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding page. Unfortunately the code won't do what it's supposed to. It seems like it will only obey two commands but not three. Like for example, at the moment I've got it where I want it and the size I want, but it won't display the caption. If I get it to display the caption, I lose the size or the location parameter.
I'm using IE 7, don't know if that makes any difference. But the pics on all the other pages display fine, so why not this one? Gatoclass 16:03, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Easy when you know how! Thanks so much Edokter, I was getting very annoyed about this problem. It isn't clear at all from the help pages that you need to specify "thumb" as well as a pixel size, I assumed you only needed the one and that's what had me baffled. Gatoclass 18:14, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I think you're right. Gatoclass 18:06, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
The skins Classic, Cologne Blue and Nostalgia don't have the links "Cite this article" and "Permanent link". Is that intentional? Help:Preferences#Skin says "Some links are not present in every skin", but doesn't mention these links. It seems impractical to not have consistent links. Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia assumes "Cite this article" is there, and people asking for citation help at Wikipedia:Help desk are often told to click "Cite this article". PrimeHunter 00:25, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
How long does it take for Special:Whatlinkshere to update? Luigi30 ( Taλk) 13:02, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed a problem loading the refdesks over the last day(ish). I have to click several times on the link from my watchlist before they load. I haven't noticed this problem with any other pages. As something of a refdesk regular, this is rather anoying! Any ideas about what is happening or how to fix it? DuncanHill 15:15, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Comment: modifying the title for CB3. Protecting the braces using {{ ... }} rather than <nowiki>...</nowiki>.
Pldx1 (
talk) 13:38, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
Is there a way to pull a page's pagename but have it start with small case? If so, please tell me how.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 22:37, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
On the login page toward the bottom, it discusses security and offers an SSL option for login secure.wikimedia.org. However, this url does not work and states "Wiki does not exist". It has been like this for a while. I tried it about a month ago and got the same error on a different computer (thought it was a temporary glich as I had used it in the past). Also, if this gets fixed, could you please link the url on the login page as it would make it much easier when browsing from my phone. Morphh (talk) 18:58, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
{{fullurl}}
'd, will leave the secure connection and log you out, and there have been problems with the destination of the
Upload file link). --
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Can someone clarify (with certainty) the meaning of "allocated portable" in terms of IP status? It's relevant to some blocks in this sockpuppet report. The Whois data is here. Thank you!-- chaser - t 08:48, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
I have my preferences set to underline links, but until today I never noticed the navigation and interaction links on the left being underlined. Has something changed, or am I just going noticing this for the first time? I'm using IE7 for a browser. Coemgenus 15:53, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
I believe this edit did it. Probably needs a partial revert. --- RockMFR 18:11, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
/* Not underlined links in portlets/specialchars even with pref "Underline links:Always" */
.portlet a, #editpage-specialchars a { text-decoration: none }
.portlet a:hover, #editpage-specialchars a:hover { text-decoration: underline }
Can somebody take a look as this issue and see if they can figure out what is wrong? The fontcolor parameter is applying itself correctly to the vde, but not the title and its negatively affecting many templates, such as {{ University of Oklahoma}}. Its protected, so if you see the problem but can't edit the template, let me know. Thanks.↔ NMajdan• talk 20:28, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
title=[[University of Oklahoma|<span style="color:#fff">University of Oklahoma</span>]]
Say you edit an article section to add a new <ref> item. When you Show Preview, the preview shows the article text but not the references, so you don't actually see the change you made. Or if you added text and a reference, you see part of the change you made, but not all of it.
When I run into this problem, I usually work around it by temporarily adding <references/> at the end of the section. Then I Show Preview, fix any errors, remove <references/>, and Save Page. But that's obviously error-prone, because one's instinct is to Save Page as soon as the errors are fixed, and it's all too easy to forget to remove the <references/> tag and have to go back and do it afterwards.
A technical workaround occurs to me. I suggest that if a section being edited contains a <ref> tag but not <references/>, the software should append a template reference like {{preview-references}}, which would expand to something like
--- ''The section being previewed contains the following references, which in '' ''the complete article will appear at the <references/> tag:'' <references/>
Of course, if you're editing only the text of the section and not the references, you don't really need to see them expanded, and they're just an annoyance. An alternative approach would be a separate Preview References button, but that seems like overkill to me.
On a related point, for both a section and an article edit, it would be desirable to trap the case where the article contains one or more <ref> tags without a <references/> tag that will expand them, or where it contains two or more <references/> tags. (Experiment indicates that each <references/> expands all <ref> tags appearing earlier in the article, so there must be exactly one <references/> tag that is after all <ref> tags.) I suggest that when a Show Preview is done, a check should be done on the entire article as it would exist if Save Page was done at this point, and if any of these erroneous situations exist, a warning should be issued (either within the preview window or elsewhere, but prominent enough that it won't be missed).
I think this should be a warning issued at preview time, not an error message preventing the save, because you have to consider what happens when someone adds the first reference to an article. If they do it during a section edit, they don't want to be blocked from saving because they forgot to add a References section first. Similarly, someone doing a cleanup pass through an article from top to bottom in order might add several references, saving sections one at a time, before they get to the end and add References. But they need to be reminded to add that References section.
Or, thinking bigger, perhaps there's a better approach -- although I guess I can't be the first person to think of this, so perhaps there are good reason why it isn't being used. But right now it seems to me as though the Right Thing is to forget the whole idea of explicit <references/> tags -- send a bot through Wikipedia to get rid of them and their associated sections -- and instead simply have the whole section
==References== <references/>
appended implicitly to the wikitext of any article containing a <ref> tag, at the time when the wikitext is rendered into HTML. (Or some equivalent behavior.) And the same for any section when it is being previewed.
This change, of course, would address both of the issues covered in my other two points.
-- 207.176.159.90 23:09, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
In the edit history page of every article, there are links like
Unfortunately, since the history is listed in reverse, the "next 50" in order of listing is the "previous 50" in chronological order, and once I get back past the two pages of entries, I always find myself clicking on the wrong link and going forward in time instead of further back.
Could another wording be found, such as
or
or something like that?
-- 207.176.159.90 05:14, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
I heard that Interiot had a tool that indicated all articles created by a user but the script seems to fail and Interiot is AWOL. I'm not technically-minded at all but if someone who knows of an alternative and could ping my Talk page that'd be great Dick G 05:13, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Over at the Kannada Wikipedia, someone tried to set up a new site notice, but the message does not appear at all now, no matter what it's set to. It's not the site notice ID because the message does not appear for anons either. -- Prince Kassad 12:59, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Is it possible to customzize my monobook.css so it would display all interwiki links at the bottom of the page instead of a box on the left? Here is a random example from the mediawiki site. --(cubic[*]star( Talk( Email))) 13:55, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
Hi!
I just edited MV Liemba to unlink Liemba which, of course, redirects to MV Liemba. Aren't there bots that do this, like for double-redirects? Or do they need a tweak? Saintrain 18:24, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
If someone knows of a workaround for this issue, I'd like to know what it is too. I couldn't find anything for it in Bugzilla either.
I have some nested collapsible tables coded up roughly as follows:
{|class="collapsible collapsed"
!Outer table header row
|-
| interesting information
|-
|
{|class="collapsible collapsed"
!Inner table header row
|-
| more detailed interesting information
|-
|
{|class="collapsible collapsed"
! Inner inner table header row
|-
| Even more detailed information that's not particularly interesting
|}
|}
|}
Here's what it looks like:
Outer table header row | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
interesting information | |||||
|
All of them should be collapsed by default. But when you expand the outer table, all the inner tables expand as well -- but their "show" links say "show". The Javascript apparently doesn't know they've expanded. When you click on "show" it changes to "hide", but doesn't do anything else. After that, the link works normally.
Any thoughts? TCC (talk) (contribs) 09:58, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Sorted it. I'd made a silly mistake about the order in which scripts are executed on a page load. It's probably very klugy, so I wonder if someone experienced in JS and the DOM could have a look at it and tell me if I've done anything boneheaded? See User:Csernica/monobook.js. And what might be the chances of getting this into Common.js? TCC (talk) (contribs) 07:26, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
I need to override the wikitables class. Specifically, I need to replace its charming #f2f2f2 table header with another color. I tried adding style="background:red;"
to the header to the header row but it seems that the wikitables class takes precedence over my customized style. So how can I override the wikitables class? --
Миборовский 05:14, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
<span class="SheetW" style="color:orange">
and <span style="color:orange" class="SheetW">
are equivalent (i.e. orange). Something similar goes for your example: <h2 class="SheetX SheetZ">
and <h2 class="SheetZ SheetX">
are equivalent.
Anomie 21:34, 21 August 2007 (UTC)..am I the only one who sees an (udnu) button in the middle of the sandbox history page? I checked, it's not in the edit summary, the software is somehow producing a backwards undo button, for this one specific revision!? Backwards AES, or is someone testing some weird javascript, css, or other in the sandbox?--VectorPotential Talk 13:15, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
Can somebody help me here? For some reason, I am unable to upload image files to wp:commons. When I type into the "destination filename" gadget, this weird red light icon flashes next to the gadget, and when I hit the "upload" button, nothing whatever happens. I've tried uploading files from external websites and my own PC, makes no difference. The image copyright selection box is set to "US federal government" so that isn't the problem. Left messages at wp:images and wp:commons village pump but got no response. Thanks. Gatoclass 04:41, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
I am using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8 and Windows Vista. Recently I have been having trouble on Wikipedia doing simple things like getting the cursor to move in the text. Navigating while editing within the text of an article is more and more difficult and unreliable. Easily (and for seemingly no reason) all or parts of the text gets selected (turning blue or gray) and usually I have to leave the page and then return to alleviate this problem. Because I do not have this problem other than on Wikipedia, I am wondering if this is a Wikipedia problem. (Also, it is very easy to lose control - have the text jumping around or scrolling out of control - as if javascript (or whatever) is operating too fast. Am I making sense in this question? Thanks, -- Mattisse 15:59, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
So here's something I just thought of that probably (a) has been asked repeatedly, and (b) is impossible. Would it be technically possible someday to modify Mediawiki to be able to block a certain IP (or, even more usefully, range block some IP's) from editing a particular article?
I thought of it because someone using IP's in the range 41.242.xxx.xxx think this is the most hilarious thing they've ever seen, so they've added it to Libertarianism about 9 times in the last week, using 6 different IP's. If this continues, no solution is really satisfactory: it seems that rangeblocking would be overreacting, as it would block a big chuck of South Africa from editing; page protection isn't good either, as this particular article gets a lot of good edits from IP addresses; and just watchlisting and continually reverting each time and moving on (what I'm doing now) is getting annoying.
Now, if you could range block for just that one article, (or, put another way, protect the page only from a range of IP addresses) you'd only prevent a large portion of South Africa from editing one article for a while, instead of all 2+ million; not perfect, but damn close. Obviously this solution doesn't exist now, but my question is, would it be technically feasible to add this feature? If it's a stupid idea, I'll tuck my tail between my legs and go home; if not, I'll explore Bugzilla for the first time. -- barneca ( talk) 00:59, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
The table in Douglas_MacArthur#Dates_of_rank looks fine for me using Firefox 2.0.0.8. Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.11 messes it up -- the vertical line goes through the text in the second column. Ain't CSS grand? -- Boracay Bill 01:59, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
I have a problem with categories showing up too high covering up some text at the bottom of pages. It only happens in IE6, not in Mozilla. It also only happens with this account, when I use another account in IE6 everything is fine. I checked if it was something in my monobook, but couldn't find it. Anyone has any ideas? Garion96 (talk) 14:30, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Unfortunately, catlinks is defined in main.css, so I can't touch it (can't see nothing wrong there either). The only thing I did find is this snipplet in IE60fixes.css:
/* Rule 18 of /skins-1.5/monobook/IE60Fixes.css?100 */ #catlinks {POSITION: relative}
I don't know why, but this may be why the category box jumps up sometimes. — Edokter • Talk • 18:19, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Internet Explorers list of CSS quirks is utterly massive. You've probably heard it before, but I highly recommend you switch to a better browser, like Safari or Firefox. At the very least, IE7 fixes a lot IE6's problems; an upgrade wouldn't be a bad idea. EVula // talk // ☯ // 03:22, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
It's late at night in Perth so this is just a brain wave ... would it be possible/feasible/desirable to make it possible to import page histories from the Nostalgia Wikipedia to this website? Some background: the Nostalgia Wikipedia is a read-only copy of Wikipedia from an 11 December 2001 database dump. However there seems to be some history in Nostalgia.Wikipedia that is not, and never was, stored in the English Wikipedia database. The germ for this idea came when I found the earliest history for saint in the English Wikipedia and compared it to the history in the Nostalgia Wikipedia, and found eleven edits that are stored in Nostalgia Wikipedia but not in the English Wikipedia. There are only 95,321 edits stored in Nostalgia Wikipedia, most of which probably don't need to be imported here. The only problems I can see are that it may mess up the revision ID's (very high numbers will be assigned to very old edits) and we may have problems with the old UseModWiki form of storing IP addresses like 127.0.0.xxx (obfiscating the last octet). Also there will be some CamelCase titles that may or may not be worth importing. Would it be worth it ... would it impact the servers much? And yes, Special:Export would work on Nostalgia Wikipedia. Graham 87 15:25, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
There are several languages that display only as large blocks (either with some sort of character in it, which is completely repeated over and over and over, or just a blank "this character doesn't exist" block). I know that on at least one wiki, there were instructions in the sitenotice for how to display the text properly, but there are a slew that don't have such instructions, and I'd like to find out how what fonts I need to install so that I can view the language properly.
For those that are curious, here's what I'm talking about:
And along the lines of what I'm looking for is my:Wikipedia:Font, which is extremely helpful (though I'd rather not pay $30 just so I can casually edit in a language) or am:Wikipedia:Can't see the font?, or the links on lo.wikipedia and ti.wikipedia. EVula // talk // ☯ // 16:40, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
I'm wondering why Wikipedia recommends the use of obscure file formats such as SVG and OGG. I'm tech-savvy enough to know how to deal with these, but my family isn't. I know there has been an increased focus on improving the accessibility of these formats through built-in automatic rendering, but they're still not nearly as simple to use as the universally accessible JPGs, PNGs, WAVs, or MP3s. Shouldn't Wikipedia emphasize accessibility of information? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cromulent ( talk • contribs) 19:48, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Is it just me, or have all non-mainspace pages turned slightly blue? - BANG ! 04:09, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
I tried putting my first image into an article today - a pic of USS Card into the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding page. Unfortunately the code won't do what it's supposed to. It seems like it will only obey two commands but not three. Like for example, at the moment I've got it where I want it and the size I want, but it won't display the caption. If I get it to display the caption, I lose the size or the location parameter.
I'm using IE 7, don't know if that makes any difference. But the pics on all the other pages display fine, so why not this one? Gatoclass 16:03, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Easy when you know how! Thanks so much Edokter, I was getting very annoyed about this problem. It isn't clear at all from the help pages that you need to specify "thumb" as well as a pixel size, I assumed you only needed the one and that's what had me baffled. Gatoclass 18:14, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Yeah, I think you're right. Gatoclass 18:06, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
The skins Classic, Cologne Blue and Nostalgia don't have the links "Cite this article" and "Permanent link". Is that intentional? Help:Preferences#Skin says "Some links are not present in every skin", but doesn't mention these links. It seems impractical to not have consistent links. Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia assumes "Cite this article" is there, and people asking for citation help at Wikipedia:Help desk are often told to click "Cite this article". PrimeHunter 00:25, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
How long does it take for Special:Whatlinkshere to update? Luigi30 ( Taλk) 13:02, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
I've noticed a problem loading the refdesks over the last day(ish). I have to click several times on the link from my watchlist before they load. I haven't noticed this problem with any other pages. As something of a refdesk regular, this is rather anoying! Any ideas about what is happening or how to fix it? DuncanHill 15:15, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
Comment: modifying the title for CB3. Protecting the braces using {{ ... }} rather than <nowiki>...</nowiki>.
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talk) 13:38, 27 January 2016 (UTC)
Is there a way to pull a page's pagename but have it start with small case? If so, please tell me how.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 22:37, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
On the login page toward the bottom, it discusses security and offers an SSL option for login secure.wikimedia.org. However, this url does not work and states "Wiki does not exist". It has been like this for a while. I tried it about a month ago and got the same error on a different computer (thought it was a temporary glich as I had used it in the past). Also, if this gets fixed, could you please link the url on the login page as it would make it much easier when browsing from my phone. Morphh (talk) 18:58, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
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