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It says in Help:Job_queue#Typical values:
During a period of low loads, the job queue might be zero. At Wikimedia, the job queue is, in practice, almost never zero. In off-peak hours, it might be a few hundreds to a thousand. During a busy day, it might be a few million, but it can quickly fluctuate by 10% or more.[1] The job queue length is reported at Special:Statistics.
Yesterday night I checked the job queue every ten seconds for two minutes, and it jumped from 9 to 24 and 243 thousand, back and forth. I repeated this with the same result (just different numbers) today. Would you have an explanation for that? It almost looks as though there are three job queues, and you get a random one. Debresser ( talk) 21:49, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
FWIW, the reason you get a few different counts is because you're getting a few different counts. The count comes from InnoDB table statistics on whatever slave happens to run the query, and each slave calculates its own statistics. So it should be reasonably stable if you get the same slave, but two different slaves might have wildly different numbers (since it's a rough estimate). — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 13:55, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
There are three different counts for the job queue. Each of them is consistent (doesn't fluctuate). Just now I had 3000, 348000 and 281000. Debresser ( talk) 14:25, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to have the three names evenly split on the collapsible header bar as they are now, but with the three words on the same line as the hide button.
Here is the code I have:
{| class="navbox collapsible" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid silver; margin-top: 0.2em;" |- ! style="background-color: #F0F2F5;" | {|width=100% style="background-color: #F0F2F5;" |width=33%| '''Creator:''' |width=33%| '''Nominator: |width=33%| '''Editor Count:''' |} |- | style="border: solid 1px silver; padding: 8px; background-color: white; " | Text |}
Which creates:
| |||
---|---|---|---|
Text |
I would like it to look like this:
Creator: | Nominator: | Editor Count: | [hide] |
Everything is on the same line.
How can I do this?
Thanks in advance. Ikip ( talk) 20:40, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Some information about the table | ||
---|---|---|
Creator | Nominator | Editor Count |
Some informationz. | ||
Some | More | Informationz |
Thanks for the suggestion Izno. The above is a very simplified example. The creator, nominator and editor count actually have names and information attached to them. I would like an editor to be able to see that creator, nominator and editor count information, but spaced evenly along the bar, even if the template is collapsed. Thanks. I have tried span tags, can't get it right, and div tags don't work. Ikip ( talk) 21:00, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
StuffMoarStuff
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Creator | Nominator | Editor Count |
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Some informationz. | ||
Some | More | Informationz |
{{ resolved}}
Something wrong happened; histories and contributions have changed, there's a unusable delete/undelete button in histories. JS doesn't seem to work. It's been difficult to edit since it happened. Certainly a configuration change caused this ? Has anyone information ? Cenarium ( talk) 17:39, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
JS seems to work again but the strange behavior continues. Here's the Server admin log. Cenarium ( talk) 17:58, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Twice in less than five minutes, I made edits to ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2009 October 1) that ended up accidentally undoing the edit just prior to mine. I was unaware of this accident until I was notified about it on my talk page. Seeing that the situation had not yet been corrected, I attempted my own correction here, which resulted in another similar accident. In neither case was I given an automated edit conflict notification, and the edits just went through as if there was nothing wrong.
Was I given a free pass against edit conflicts by a bureaucrat or something like that, giving my edits priority over everyone else's when there's a conflict? Because if that's the case I'll willingly relinquish that "privilege" any time. -- Blanchardb - Me• MyEars• MyMouth- timed 16:59, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Known by who? Has anybody filed a bug? — Werdna • talk 10:38, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
I have no idea where to appropriately mention this, but this seems like the best place. It would be nice if the Wiki software could somehow incorporate a spell-checker in the "Edit summary" field as it does in the body field. I always try to be as detailed as possible in my summaries and feel quite retarded when I have to tab off the page to go to Google to check my spelling for a comment in the field (as I sometimes have to use "big" words with complicated spelling to get across my point in the limited characters). Anyway, maybe someone else here will get my point. Spell check = good. Especially in a field which can never be fixed or edited again once you see the stupid mistake you've made.
PS I just realized I wouldn't have to tab out to Google like I always do to check my spelling; I could just input it in the body field right above. Don't know why I didn't figure out that little simplicity before, but to each his own. But perhaps the suggestion is still worthwhile.
ALmost every second time I come to Wikipedia the main page is showing in the modern skin. I hav en't set it to show like this, and it often changes back to normal next time I visit the site. Why is this? What is wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.251.147.241 ( talk • contribs)
Hi there,
I am currently using the code {{:List of bla bla}} code to bring in the ifnormaiton from a sub page which was split out of the main article back to teh main one. however the code bring the entire page of the article into the mai article so meaning i can not make the indvidual articles serparate and ther eown articles. what i liek to know is there any way ot alter the code so it only brings in the table from the serperate article?-- Andrewcrawford ( talk - contrib) 12:44, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
{{foos}}
to both of them.
Svick (
talk) 12:56, 3 October 2009 (UTC)It's only "within size" in that it is easier to edit - the page itself is still just as big - or possibly a little bigger. There is currently no good solution to this:
I don't understand any of this technical stuff, but somehow the first onlyinclude above makes everything before it not appear on WP:VPA. Could someone fix this? Ntsimp ( talk) 14:28, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
<
into <
, but I don't understand why was it causing problems, because the onlyinclude was inside nowiki tag, so I think it should have been ok (but wasn't).
Svick (
talk) 14:40, 5 October 2009 (UTC)Anyone know why
doesn't work even with the talk namespace turned on? Rich Farmbrough, 16:57, 3 October 2009 (UTC).
There is a discussion about bibliography articles taking place here. Suggestions being made are of far wider significance than to the specific page in question, therefore any constructive contributions to the conversation would be greatly appreciated. Neelix ( talk) 21:08, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I just wanted to ask about the feature by which new changes (ie. since the page was last visited) appear in bold text in the watchlist. This feature is in place on Commons for example, but not enwiki. My understanding is that it was disabled some time ago due to a glitch which has since been fixed. Are there any plans to re-enable the feature? Doktor Mandrake 16:10, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed that Chrome and Firefox consistently order my top tabs differently from each other- comparison shot here. I've searched and scraped through every line of my Monobook files ( User:Kingoomieiii/monobook.js, User:Kingoomieiii/monobook.css) but I can't find anything that would cause this.
I actually much prefer the Chrome ordering, but Firefox is my baby ;_;
Thoughts? -- King Öomie 16:19, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
A new, time-driven, discussion at Village Pump (proposals) has both technical and non-technical aspects. Your comments and ideas (both technical or non-technical) would be most welcome. Please see WP:VPPR#When GeoCities shuts down, how should we handle links to its sites?. —— Shakescene ( talk) 23:54, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm really interested in creating some tutorials on using Wikipedia. I haven't really fleshed out this idea yet, but I would probably combine screen recording with voice over, and produce short clips of a few minutes on different areas and aspects of editing. I'd start with the basics, of course, but I could move on to introducing things like adding inline citations, uploading images, DYK review, etc.
I discussed this with another editor, and he pointed out that flash would probably work best for screen capture, and that it isn't supported on WP. Hurdle number 1. Assuming that I could use an alternative to flash that would be supported on WP, would the community accept video embedded on Help pages? If it couldn't be embedded, would it be ok to host the videos elsewhere and link to them from help pages? Instead of embedding help pages with videos specific to the content (which would be restricting for me), would it be viable to create a separate help page devoted to the videos? Would the community want to vet them first? How would it be established that they were appropriate?
Another aspect I am wondering about is privacy concerns. Would there be objections to screen shots that would, inevitably, show dozens of user names and some of their associated edits? Would I have to cover up the WP logo?
Has this idea been tried or suggested before and failed?
I hope that's not too many questions for one post! I'm really curious to know if this would work and am interested in hearing feedback. I really think that videos could help us retain editors who find WP initially bewildering. Plus, it would be fun to make them! Also posting to Village pump (proposals) Maedin\ talk 18:40, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
What the section heading says: How do I link to pages that have square brackets in their URLs? Geuiwogbil ( Talk) 06:48, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
I am having difficulty settng up a page do not know where to start. See Dr. Laureen Wishom. How do i get to education awards etc (example Jeffrey Gitomer's page) need help —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr. Laureen Wishom ( talk • contribs) 03:41, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
I created a template with an embedded ref and it is not behaving as expected. The problem template is
Template:American college football All-Americans (usage: {{
American college football All-Americans|Oklahoma|ref=Y}}
). It seems to be adding line breaks or something to cause a <pre> box to show. To see various examples of issues, see
User:Nmajdan/Test/AA. Thanks.—
NMajdan•
talk 16:55, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
I just asked this question at mediawiki irc:
One editor responded: edit $wgCategoryPagingLimit = 200
I responded: This is Wikipedia i have no access to this. Is there any other option?
Another editor responded: There is no way to do it then. Even api call would be limited to 500 pages unless you're a sysop.
How can I list these category pages will API? I hate to think there is no way to list more than 200 pages...
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parameters_to_index.php#View_and_render does not seem to work. Any suggestions? Ikip ( talk) 18:47, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
I've suggested several times we should increase the default number of pages displayed to (say) 500, but got little reaction either way. Is there any reason not to do it? I can't believe there are performance issues - even with 500 entries a category page will be small compared with many of our most read articles.-- Kotniski ( talk) 08:33, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
What happened to the edit counter link on the user contribs page? Majorly talk 23:37, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
I have been getting cryptic error messages from the Wikimedia Foundation when I try to make an edit. I use the back arrow and save again, sometimes several times, and finally get an edit conflict message - from my own edit. I suspect that what is happening is that something is detecting that it took too long for the edit information to be transmitted, and sometimes it uses it and still gives a failure notice and sometimes doesn't use it and gives a failure notice, which includes the words:
"Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again in a few minutes."
Now amazingly we went from maybe 80% on dialup in the world to about 80% on broadband in a very short period of time, and since I am still on dialup I am guessing that maybe the servers have been tweaked to expect broadband type of speed, or at least good dialup, as my dialup speed often drops to a few bytes per minute! Apteva ( talk) 18:23, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Changes to the MediaWiki software are adding noindexed pages to Category:Noindexed pages, which doesn't exist (the correct category is Category:Wikipedia noindex pages). Does the category need to be moved or is it intended to be a duplicate? There is also a Category:Indexed pages, which should probably be created. snigbrook ( talk) 19:24, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
The left-floating images in Monreale aren't appearing where they're supposed to. Any ideas? OrangeDog ( talk • edits) 11:39, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Along with having the [unwatch] tag at the article, it should have included in the My watchlist page, along side [rollback] tag:
Example:
(diff) (hist) . . Wikipedia:Good article nominations; 19:55 . . (+98) . . Mootros (talk | contribs) (→Law) [rollback][unwatch]
The benefits:
importScript('User:Alex Smotrov/wlunwatch.js');
Hello, Xeno told me that this external revision history search tool is on history pages by default, but I cannot find it. See User talk:Xeno#Searching for more info and screenshots. Our history pages appear vastly different... BlazerKnight ( talk) 07:54, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
We have 700 or so local interface changes for the English language. Applying those changes to gb english is not the problem. The problem is keeping the changes in sync with the other english original, and the "what about all the other languages" issue. Anyone have ideas ? — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 15:45, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
The long absence of Diberri's tool vexes me cruelly. )0: Can it be helped? -- CopperKettle 05:27, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Why don't deletions by an admin appear in the contributions page? Simply south ( talk) 21:20, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Category:All articles proposed for deletion says it has 11,907 articles in it, but when I page through the list of articles I see only 613 of them. The smaller number seems like the more reasonable one for this category. What is causing the discrepancy? — David Eppstein ( talk) 22:27, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Fixed — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 16:13, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
There are several articles (e.g. Nellore) that have been categorised with the form Category:Articles with unsourced statements from month 2,008, i.e where the year has a comma. A list can be seen here. they all seem to be due to {{ fact}} or similar tags, but I can't find a way of correcting the pages. Any ideas? Tassedethe ( talk) 09:51, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
|population_total=
by adding commas every three digits. That field has a {{
Fact|date=April 2008}}
and the template is adding the comma. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk 10:06, 8 October 2009 (UTC)|stat_pop1=
; for
Tskhinvali it is {{
Infobox Settlement}} and |population_total=
. I'm not sure how to fix those templates so they don't try to eat the {{
fact}} templates, other than removing the formatting. You can't fix the citation needed issue, because any references added to the field will get misformatted as well. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk 10:17, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
{{Infobox Settlement|pop=1234{{fact}}}}
it would be {{Infobox Settlement|pop=1234|pop ref={{fact}}}}
. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Anomie (
talk •
contribs) 13:02, 8 October 2009 (UTC)Don't know where to mention this (nor what to do about it), but I just came across an article " South Asians/North Africans". As far as I know such a title is unacceptable in terms of the hierarchical layout of pages on Wikipedia, but I'm really not sure of the specific rules or what to do about it.... Help?
I like the new WP:LDR option for citations. I'm looking into converting a large article, but I recently converted a smaller article, Tina Charles, to the format. After converting, I realized I could add <!1>, <!2> etc, in front of each footnote. Not a big deal, but if I want to edit footnote 4, it's easy to find. The obvious downside is that the numbering is static. If I add new material and cite it, the footnotes automatically renumber, but not my "cheat sheet". My simple question - is there a way to accomplish this? It isn't worth worrying about for a seven footnote article, but if I have an article such as Barack Obama, where I've started a conversion, it's highly likely that footnotes will be added or deleted. It occurs to me that it might be relatively straightforward to write a macro or a bot to automatically add or update the entries, but I thought I'd ask here in case there's a more elegant solution (plus, if the answer is a macro or bot, I need to find someone who can do that.)-- SPhilbrick T 21:52, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible? Large TOCs as in Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list/Evidence are hardly more readable than the contents of such pages. TIA, NVO ( talk) 05:49, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
TOC limit}}
will do what you want.
Graham
87 09:05, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it just me (my browser - MSIE) or has something gone wrong with the preview of File:Cards.jpg. If I go there and click on Full resolution, then I get the big image, but I don't get a preview, here or on playing cards. -- SGBailey ( talk) 10:07, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
The contributions screen seems to have a hard time making a choice between:
(latest | earliest) View (newer 100 | older 100) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
and
(latest | earliest) View (newer 100) (older 100) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
A minor, but annoying issue. – xeno talk 12:45, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to ask why, when you first open Wikipedia or return to the home page, is the cursor not automatically placed within the search box? It would make searching easier. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hufri01 ( talk • contribs) 14:27, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
I've tried a redesign of MediaWiki:Fancycaptcha-createaccount, drafted here: User:Rd232/fc. Comments? Rd232 talk 15:23, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey, what's going on with tables? In every article I read table borders and cell lines have disappeared. Is it just me or are they being tweaked? Copana2002 ( talk) 16:43, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
{|
, maybe there isn't any problem. As I can recall, maybe some time ago these tables were rendered as if they would had a first line like that: {| border="1"
. --
Codicorumus
« msg 15:14, 10 October 2009 (UTC)I'm writing a commercial ( financial conflict disclosure) app that generally functions as a browser but I'm getting a lot of 403 and 406 server responses from wikipedia pages.Is there some well know reason this may occur? I could fake the user agent string but so far I haven't had any reason to do that. This became an issue as I was trying to make a note taking browser that makes it easy to copy text from browser pages and do some simple collation on the phone and then mail it to your default email account for later edit and past into a wiki page or talk page. I thought this would be a good way to research during dead time when you may only have access to a smartphone. Thanks Nerdseeksblonde ( talk) 22:52, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} this one : List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates is not accessible ?! from this page : Nobel Peace Prize#List of Laureates ?! kernitou talk 21:50, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to display editnotices for "-"-subpages of a page, specifically Mediawiki:Tag ( Special:Prefixindex/Mediawiki:Tag-) and Mediawiki:Abusefilter-warning ( Special:Prefixindex/Mediawiki:Abusefilter-warning-). It can be done for "/"-subpages because we have titleparts, and so {{ FULLROOTPAGENAME}}, but there is nothing similar I know for -. If there is nothing to get "-"-titleparts, then we could still use a parser function 'ifprefix' on a case-by case basis (used via {{#ifprefix:Mediawiki:Tag-|{{FULLPAGENAME}}|then|else}}), such a function would be of general interest. But I don't think we have this, maybe it's requested ? Otherwise, is there another solution ? Cenarium ( talk) 15:53, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
I don't know if this'll make sense to anybody but me; but, I thought I'd bring it up here in-case anybody thinks there's value to the suggestion. As a regular user/editor (i.e., not an admin/sysop) I'm often working in areas and I see deleted articles where I want to see how long/significant the history has been and where it's gone. I don't know if it would be possible, but it might be nice if the software would allow "regular" users could see histories on deleted articles→just the "special" history page itself, without actually being able to link into any of the versions nor compare them. For various reasons, on a couple of occasions I've wanted to be able to (though not necessarily see the actual article), and I think maybe it should be considered. Comments from other editors (though I don't know if admins will be able to make an objective :P comment on this)? Peace and Passion ☮ ( "I'm listening....") 20:36, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Is this known ? All null diffs are broken, it seems to be recent, maybe due to the major update a few days ago, which changed appearance of various interface elements. Verified using another browser and logged-off. Cenarium ( talk) 00:43, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. My watchlist preferences are set to show only the most recent change to each watched page, but a watchlist RSS feed shows all recent changes to watched pages. For example, if I'm watching the "pump" page, and that page has had 20 edits recently, my watchlist will correctly show only the one most recent edit, but my RSS feed list will show 20 entries for "pump". Is that a feature or a bug? Is there any way I can have the RSS feed obey my watchlist preference? Thanks. Rwxrwxrwx ( talk) 09:33, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 31#Unreferenced BLP notification about creating a bot to go through the backlog of unreferenced BLPs, and notify creators and people substantially involved with the article that the article is unreferenced. Rd232 talk 10:09, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
MediaWiki:Robots.txt says "... Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ARequests_for_adminship/". But searching on an expression in a current RFA pulled up that RFA on Google. Am I reading robots.txt wrong? Is there an accurate list somewhere of which pages are noindexed? - Dank ( push to talk) 02:34, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
When searching archives etc, new users are often confused and create the page. For examples, see Twilight prefix:Talk:Main Page, Prefix:Talk:Main Page, Nobel prize prefix:Talk:Barack Obama or Roumanian Stabilisation Developement Loans prefix:Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives. I suppose many more have been deleted, and it's also worth noting that plenty are present in userspace, see those here ( example), probably prompted by MediaWiki:Newarticletext. A fix would be to remove the create this page link for searches using prefix:, and maybe also when using intitle: and incategory:. So I've filled T23102 pointing here for reference, please indicate if you have any objection. Cenarium ( talk) 00:02, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
The quality of Wikipedia images has markedly decreased. I have been uploading images to the Wikicommons. When adding 'em to Wikipedia, I have noticed that the image quality (resolution) seems to be severely degraded -- something that has happened in the last week or two. Interestingly, it seems to be just on the English language version of WP; I concluded this after comparing images of a Mallory body and cirrhosis in the German and English version of WP. I presume this is to save bandwidth. Does anyone know whether this is temporary? Is it possible the image quality could at least be restored for registered users when they login? Nephron T| C 18:33, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} This [3] article has spacing problems, but there appears to be nothing to fix when I try to edit. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:12, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
I found something that wasn't normal. I finally realized it belonged in the previous section. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:16, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} Hi, this was brought to ANI but it's probably better dealt with over here. The Template:DeLeonism has some strange things happening. When you go to click on the (v) (d) or (e) links at the bottom of the template, it tries to send you to a template with the addition of the word "terrorism" in the title. My knowledge of templates is very limited, but thought someone here might be able to help out the original user who posted it? Thanks! Frmatt ( talk) 03:00, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
When searching archives etc, new users are often confused and create the page. For examples, see Twilight prefix:Talk:Main Page, Prefix:Talk:Main Page, Nobel prize prefix:Talk:Barack Obama or Roumanian Stabilisation Developement Loans prefix:Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives. I suppose many more have been deleted, and it's also worth noting that plenty are present in userspace, see those here ( example), probably prompted by MediaWiki:Newarticletext. A fix would be to remove the create this page link for searches using prefix:, and maybe also when using intitle: and incategory:. So I've filled T23102 pointing here for reference, please indicate if you have any objection. Cenarium ( talk) 00:02, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
The quality of Wikipedia images has markedly decreased. I have been uploading images to the Wikicommons. When adding 'em to Wikipedia, I have noticed that the image quality (resolution) seems to be severely degraded -- something that has happened in the last week or two. Interestingly, it seems to be just on the English language version of WP; I concluded this after comparing images of a Mallory body and cirrhosis in the German and English version of WP. I presume this is to save bandwidth. Does anyone know whether this is temporary? Is it possible the image quality could at least be restored for registered users when they login? Nephron T| C 18:33, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} This [5] article has spacing problems, but there appears to be nothing to fix when I try to edit. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:12, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
I found something that wasn't normal. I finally realized it belonged in the previous section. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:16, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} Hi, this was brought to ANI but it's probably better dealt with over here. The Template:DeLeonism has some strange things happening. When you go to click on the (v) (d) or (e) links at the bottom of the template, it tries to send you to a template with the addition of the word "terrorism" in the title. My knowledge of templates is very limited, but thought someone here might be able to help out the original user who posted it? Thanks! Frmatt ( talk) 03:00, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Isn't there a - amenable - way to search among titles of deleted pages, or deleted content ? Special:Undelete allows only to list pages starting with a given prefix. For example, it would have been useful for the subject of the previous thread, and I had other reasons to search those for maintenance. Cenarium ( talk) 00:17, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Why won't this category:
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Nashville, Tennessee
show up as a subcategory of:
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Tennessee
?
Kaldari (
talk) 19:46, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Why don't we have a touring members section as part of the infobox? In addition to members and former members, I think it would be good to have a Touring members section for band pages; it can help clear the air about who contributed in the studio, who was there for the tour. A band's live history is just as important for fans as their recording history is; I think this section could be beneficial for properly representing everyone who contributed to a band.
Can anyone tell me why the content for several revisions from late 2004/early 2005 are missing on Magic Knight Rayearth? For example: 27 December 2004, 28 January 2005 [7], 7 February 2005 [8] [9], 20 February 2005, and so on. The latest I've found is one from 6 May 2005. I know many early diffs are missing entirely, but I always thought that was constrained to diffs from 2001 and early 2002, and I've never heard of an edit's metadata being kept while its content was deleted, except maybe in some isolated incidents relating to short-lived bugs... Thoughts? 「 ダイノガイ 千?!」 ? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 21:33, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed some strange things that I have never been able to explain:
Does anyone know what might have caused these oddities? -- Ixfd64 ( talk) 01:06, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm resurrecting this thread. Here is an example of a page without a deletion log. I would like to improve that page to a level that would make suitable for Wikipedia, but I can't find the page, nor the deletion log.
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Xshell&action=edit&redlink=1
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Dandv ( talk • contribs) 08:47, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I noticed today that the lines underneath the section headers in the Vector skin are overlapping some content for me ( [10] is a snapshot from the article Halting problem). Does this happen for anyone else? My browser is Firefox 3.5.3 on Linux. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 11:57, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
<div>
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Svick (
talk) 12:37, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
(with apologies to Radiohead) Can we do something about IP's having to type a CAPTCHA every time they add a WP:EL, especially if it's stuck in a ref template? I guess that could be complicated to parse, but couldn't the check be done every tenth time and still discourage spambots? I've typed so many now (since I ref the heck out of everything, usually with {{ cite web}}) I've actually reached the end of the list and started back around again at the beginning. -- 209.6.238.201 ( talk) 10:14, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I don't know whether this is a technical or a policy issue, so I have posted it on both Village Pumps.
Within the last 24 hours, seemingly random underlining with dots has appeared all over Wikipedia. (Is there a name for it?) In my opinion it destroys the readability of Wikipedia articles. It makes words and phrases jump off the page. As far as I can tell, it serves no useful purpose at all, but if people really like the extra linking function there's got to be a less annoying way to mark the links. Can we revert back to yesterday on this thing? HowardMorland ( talk) 17:00, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}}
Could someone re-write Template:Split section/doc#Usage into something resembling English? I have no idea what is strongly recommended. OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 11:18, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Now that we have a bunch of editors who are using vector, and, I assume there are also those of us who have grown accustomed to monobook and won't be changing, what about some kind of way to direct a user to Special:Mypage/(myskin).js or .css ? It would make it a lot easier to explain to newer and less technically-inclined users how to install stuff into their .js and .css pages. – xeno talk 18:11, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
display
code across the sitewide skin code pages to create a template for everyone. {{
Nihiltres|
talk|
edits}} 15:52, 13 October 2009 (UTC) (iPod edit)
Here is a short script that dynamically replaces Special:MySkin.js links with Special:MyPage/skin.js links (with "skin" being the current skin of the user): User:Cacycle/myskinify.js (install using "importScript('User:Cacycle/myskinify.js');"). It does the same to .css links. It works under all skins and with the current versions of Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and IE. The execution time should be negligible and I do not think it would interact with any existing script or gadget. I propose to add this (or something similar) to the common.js. Cacycle ( talk) 04:06, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Whenever you look at an edit by another user you get a line number as part of the display of the actual edit at the top of the page. It would be nice to be able to use this information to go down the page so you can find and see the actual view of the article. -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE 17:16, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Do named parameters not work with #expr? For instance, take the code {{#expr:{{{year}}}+1}}. If year
was 1000, it should return 1001. It works if you do not use a named parameter like this: {{#expr:{{{1}}}+1}}. Unfortunately, I have to use a named parameter as I'm trying to convert an existing template to a new format.—
NMajdan•
talk 19:45, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
When counting the number of hits to a page that has been renamed/moved, should I count the stats for the old page *and* the new page? Or, does a redirect automatically increment the number of hits to both pages? Take for example Wikipedia:WikiProject Koei Warriors Games which was renamed/moved in February. The old link had more hits in April than the new link, which seems weird to me, since visitors to the old page should automatically be redirected to the new page. SharkD ( talk) 00:40, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Every now and then, the sidebar gets changed, with contents added, removed or changed. Some people could think this doesn't bother anyone, but there are people like me who have defined many things in the personal monobook.css page, and every time something gets changed, everything is screwed up.
I'm getting really annoyed of this. I'd feel much better if this changes were kept to a bare minimum, or at least if these changes were well documented. Sorry if I sound rude, I don't want to, I just would thank if someone gives me some answer, or helps me find how can I track the changes and properly maintain, with little effort, my css. - Keta ( talk) 11:40, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
I can no longer search for individual characters. I tried typing in "|", assuming it would redirect me to the actual article ( vertical bar), but instead I got a page saying that no results were found. Huh?? Surely "|" is used somewhere on Wikipedia... what's the deal? -- Cryptic C62 · Talk 00:37, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure if the ships template would need altering but please see Template_talk:WikiProject_Ships#incomplete_B-Class_checklists if you can assist in making this happen; thanks. -- Brad ( talk) 00:38, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Dear all, I am from Bengali Wikipedia. One small thinks I want to know, how do you create the Tab name of Main Page as "Main Page". If you go to main page of this wiki you can see top first tab called "Main Page". I also send a bug T22987. But they still now give me not any resolution.- Jayanta Nath ( Talk| Contrb) 10:03, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi all,
I'm a bit puzzled by a bug report for my bot, where a "collapsible box" mechanism fails. I've set up a test page to that end, on which you can see the problem. Basically, I try to transclude a page into a collapsible box. However, the box - which on other occassions has always worked fine - collapses only the first lines of the transcluded page. What's going wrong here? It might be related to {{ PR/header}}, but I have no clue what the exact reason is. Any ideas? -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 16:44, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
::{{PR/header|...}}
". With the newline in the template, the raw HTML ends up as something like "<dl><dd><div>...PR/header...</dd></dl></div>
"; either the browser or MediaWiki's tidy interprets that
tag soup such that the div at the end of the PR/header template closes the NavContent div.
Anomie
⚔ 17:44, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi; is it possible to set an image as the background to a page (either tiled or stretched) or a box or something? Thanks! ╟─ Treasury Tag► Tellers' wands─╢ 13:56, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
But surely if I want it to show up for everyone viewing the page, it would need to be in the syntax? ╟─ Treasury Tag► constabulary─╢ 14:17, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
I know it's a bug, but in what? A certain template wraps one of the parameters in a formatnum (hint: population), but if somebody tries to add a reference to this population you get strip markers, eg this article. This a bug in PFuncs or Cite? Q T C 10:11, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
I've just noticed that many (all?) pages in Wikipedia: namespace are move-protected, even if there's nothing in the protection log. Is this now the default for this namespace? Has it changed recently, or have I only just noticed it?-- Kotniski ( talk) 14:04, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
On 2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, this error message is displayed about 50 times: "Error: If you specify |archivedate=, you must also specify |archiveurl=." The thing is, they all already have that parameter. What should I do to fix this? I posted this at Template talk:Cite web, and another editor has also independently posted there, but I'm not sure how many people read that talk page. Coemgenus 15:26, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
If you've been seeing error messages to the effect of "Error: If you specify |archivedate=, you must also specify |archiveurl=", it's probably because of recent tinkering with Template:Citation/core and its dependents; discussion is taking place at User_talk:Amalthea#cite_web_etc.. This public service announcement brought to you by Skomorokh, barbarian 15:28, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to add edit notices to special pages?
The reason I ask is that it would be helpful if users emailing user:Oversight and user:Arbitration Committee saw a custom message on Special:EmailUser/Arbitration_Committee along the lines of this.
We could add this to the list of notes on MediaWiki:Emailpagetext, but I doubt people will read that. We could make it blink using a CSS selector for ".page-Special_EmailUser_User_Arbitration_Committee"
Alternatively, it would be good to change MediaWiki:Defemailsubject to something like "Wikipedia email: [change me]". John Vandenberg ( chat) 03:23, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
{{FULLPAGENAME}}
works on
Special:EmailUser, and recognises the subpage as long as it's passed as
Special:EmailUser/ExampleUser. So it should be easy to tweak that message to display a custom text for certain users.
Happy‑
melon 10:08, 15 October 2009 (UTC)It would still be good if individual users could set up their own personal message as well, though... ╟─ Treasury Tag► inspectorate─╢ 18:05, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
{{#ifexist:{{ns:User}}:{{#titleparts: {{FULLPAGENAME}} | 1 | 2 }}/Emailnotice | {{{{ns:User}}:{{#titleparts: {{FULLPAGENAME}} | 1 | 2 }}/Emailnotice}} }}
— Dispenser 22:53, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Nice. Note that this won't work with a link like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser?target=Oversight, only with Special:EmailUser/Oversight. Amalthea 16:27, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
&wpSubject=
in the url too. —
Dispenser 17:34, 19 October 2009 (UTC)If anyone has time to pop over to TMtr template example I could do with a little advice, The template {{ TMtr}} is set up to generate a for a 11 parameter item, a complicated formatted rendering, as two rows in a table. It works and can be used. While working on the documentation, I attempted to input instances with each parameter on a separate line- this broke the template. I have shown it working and not working in the example. The point is that I don't understand what is causing the problem- and how one must cure it. The cure would achieve stability and provide an interesting line to include in H:T. Its not urgent but if anyone has a moment.... -- ClemRutter ( talk) 17:22, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
|
with {{
!}}
inside a template call wherever it is meant as table-|
and not template-|
, but it can make the code quite unreadable.
Svick (
talk) 13:54, 19 October 2009 (UTC){{
StripWhitespace|x = {{{6|}}}}}
has already been witten. It solved all the problems. Thanks guys for all the input- we can all sleep soundly tonight. --
ClemRutter (
talk) 22:19, 19 October 2009 (UTC)I'm using Chrome and everything I to go edit somthing, the first 10 functions are displayed (those icons above the "Subject/headline" box). I have to refresh the page, when this happens, to get the rest of the functions, such as insert table. This is got to be fixed. Maybe a bugzilla report will fix. 174.3.111.148 ( talk) 21:06, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Any template whiz know how to do (or approximate) the pipe trick in a template. I'd like {{ Font list item}} to have this functionality. OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 23:32, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
[[{{{name}}}|]
. Won't work, I'm afraid, the pipe trick actually expands such a wikilink when saving it, not when displaying it. My writing of [[Foo (disambiguation)|]]
here is expanded to
Foo while saving, check the source text. For limited usage, you might be interested in {{
Title disambig text}} though.
Amalthea 23:56, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
I am unable to get the wayback template to work for the address http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C84105%7C1%7C,00.html as the template stops at the first pipe, malforming the address.
Is there some kind of escape character I can put in front of the pipes so that the template forms a valid address on Archive.org? LeilaniLad ( talk) 17:43, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
{{!}} should work.— Kww( talk) 17:47, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
wayback}}
and both variants work with it:{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271{{! |date=* }}84105{{!}}1{{!}},00.html}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C84105%7C1%7C,00.html |date=* }}
Is there a template or a WP on this I could refer to on this subject? LeilaniLad ( talk) 18:24, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
As long as I'm at it, a citation to another Wikipedia article is bad form as well, no? LeilaniLad ( talk) 18:34, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Every time I upload an image, it shows that I uploaded it twice in quick succession under file history. I also get the stupid "uploading file" box that never goes past 0% and doesn't let me click anything else, although the image still gets uploaded. I'm guessing these problems are related somehow. I thought it might have to do with the Beta, but it happens with or without the Beta active. I also tried with and without the new "mwEmbed support" gadget and the Firefogg Firefox extension, but it still happens. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, MrKIA11 ( talk) 20:36, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
How do I make this work properly:
[[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion#{{#formatdate:{{CURRENTYEAR}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}|ISO 8601}}|MfD]]
produces: [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion#2024-05-04|MfD]]
Thanks, MrKIA11 ( talk) 11:52, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2024-05-04">2024-05-04</span>
. For the specific use case here, why not just do [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion#{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}}|MfD]]
→
MfD?
Anomie
⚔ 12:28, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
[[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion#{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}}|MfD]]
only gives the right section link for users with no date preference or the right preference.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 13:43, 20 October 2009 (UTC)Hi, friends! I recently printed the article Spontaneous CSF Leak using the built in print option located on the left panel. However, when printed I got a few errors. Namely, the images displayed code and the references all had this little EDIT next to them. I wonder if this is a known issue and can anyone else reproduce it? Thanks! Basket of Puppies 19:42, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
The problem (webserver saying "Please provide a User-Agent header" instead of serving the page) happens only with some URLs (example: [11]). It makes wikipedia stand out as annoying for users who don't normally send the header. I hope this behavior serves a purpose (like, keeping out a bot operated by someone who is smart enough to operate a bot but not smart enough to forge the header). 92.225.64.14 ( talk) 13:35, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
host:
header - are you sure it's wikipedia? You probably can't edit without a user agent. --
h2g2bob (
talk) 23:57, 20 October 2009 (UTC)On several occasions in the past week, all I intended to do was search for something. The article more than likely did not exist, but I wanted to know where the information was.
All Wikipedia would do was tell me there was no such article and give me a red link to create the article. At some point, I was able to find the text I searched for, so the search function should have given me at least the one result and probably more; whether the text was a title of something notable enough for an article is debatable. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:26, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to move the deleted pages listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Constructed languages/Edit wars and deletions#Old AfDs, DRVs, etc to FrathWiki. Ops on the destination machine can be had.
But as a lowly user on WP, I don't have access to the pages in order to move them over.
Could I get some help?
Thanks! Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 21:57, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
I am just going to copy-paste a thread that I apparently started at the wrong Village Pump:
Hello,
At Special:SpecialPages, under "High Use Pages," we are listing Special:MostLinkedPages. But this page has been out-of-use for some time now. If possible, we should remove it from Special:SpecialPages. SpecialPages ranks 277 in terms of traffic, and it looks amateurish to link to a dead-end from a high-trafficked page. Andrew Gradman talk/ WP:Hornbook 07:11, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
When I go to My preferences > User Profile > E-mail Options, I can't see an option as "Notify me by e-mail when my talk page is changed" while I remember very well that the option used to exist though I never used it but I would like to use it now. Also I can't see "Notify me when the page I watch are changed" while Wikipedia:Preferences states that such option exists. The said two options exist in Wikinews and Commons. Help me out in the earliest, thank you, Srin ivas 10:42, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
I eliminated the sidebar and expanded the main content area to full screen by adding hidePane to my user javascript page. no links were lost. they just got moved to drop down boxes at the top of the page. this is perfect except that I would really like for the links to stay in place while I scroll. How would I do that? Also I'm wondering if you think it would even be possible to create a drop down menu at the top of the page with the table of contents as its content? Lemmiwinks2 ( talk) 17:01, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
For your information, since June, Special:ActiveUsers lists all active users ( T17456), I have linked it from Special:ListUsers ( MediaWiki:Listusers-summary) and at Special:Statistics (from MediaWiki:Statistics-users-active). There's no explanatory message, but it's requested at T21319. Cenarium ( talk) 17:19, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
I have a Wikipedia skin for the Firefox addon
Stylish, and I was wondering if there was any way to have it appear as a skin in the WP preferences dialog. It seems to only work when I press "show preview" while editing, and it only works on that page. Is there any way to convert is into a personal WP skin without modifying any of the original skins? I'm rather new to WP, and (more than) a little confused. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-
Hmmwhatsthisdo (
talk) 01:23, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
I've just created Template:MediaWiki redundant to help identify which mediawiki interface messages are not in use (including those which merely include something else). It could perhaps add a templated category or something as well. I'd like it to distinguish messages which are entirely redundant and messages which include something else, but my brain isn't working enough to do it. Thoughts? Rd232 talk 17:55, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
.../en
message on
Special:AllMessages and
translatewiki: then it's probably obsolete. For example,
MediaWiki:Watchdetails (now a redirect) is obsolete for sure. —
AlexSm 19:03, 22 October 2009 (UTC)A question, short and to the point: is there a way to configure rollback so that it doesn't mark edits as minor? -- Ckatz chat spy 23:07, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Today, I am uses Firefox, and it is sluggish here. Since i am a Nav-PopUp user, it fails to load. Besides that, the BG always sluggish to loaded. Why? The Junk Police ( reports| works) 03:46, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
I just discovered that, apparently, the IBdB doesn't allow external linking to pages within their website. I clicked on the ibdb link on Lend Me a Tenor, which took me to the ibdb main page, so I changed the link to another page within the ibdb website, and that link, too, only takes the reader to the ibdb main page. Is there anything that can be done to fix this, or should we have some sort of policy about linking to ibdb? 99.166.95.142 ( talk) 17:39, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Rapping#Flow Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:13, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
listen}}
template. I
asked on its talk page if anybody knows how to fix this.
Svick (
talk) 00:25, 23 October 2009 (UTC)I started using the Vector skin and I'd like the actions that are now in the drop-down menu (i.e. Watch, Purge, Twinkle stuff) to show as tabs as the rest of them (e.g. Edit, View history). How can I change my user JS or CSS to do this? Svick ( talk) 12:41, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
moveActionOutOfMenu()
function. {{
Nihiltres|
talk|
edits}} 14:48, 21 October 2009 (UTC)addOnloadHook
and I move them the same way, and my code apparently executes before Twinkle's. How can I fix this?
Svick (
talk) 17:08, 21 October 2009 (UTC)For closed XfD discussions, my current monobook.css is set to hide. The problem is, when I'm on the actual AfD discussion page (e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AAAAA), when I actually want to see the discussion, it obviously doesn't show up. How do I configure my CSS to hide when on a log (e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2007 September 16) but show when on the discussion page? (If that's not possible, I can live with having both collapsed.) -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:33, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Ok so the subject isn't clear, so let me use an example rather than trying to explain it
If I put a space before a line, it does a code or quotation box. Unfortunately the text never wraps and will cause a horizontal scroll bar if it isn't manually broken.
Is this proper behaviour (I can't imagine there would ever be an instance when we want this) or is it a bug? - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 18:59, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
<blockquote>...</blockquote>
tag, or one of the quotation templates. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk 20:37, 23 October 2009 (UTC)Is there a variation/a template that I can use to make the box, but have it wrap (for quotations and what not)? (beat me to it Gadget) Or from a vice-versa perspective, can we make a template for code snippets and use the indent space for quotations (probably not at this point I assume)? -
ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ
τ
¢ 20:40, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
You can enclose it in <pre style="width:80%; white-space: pre-wrap;">...</pre>
:
If I put a space before a line, it does a code or quotation box. Unfortunately the text never wraps and will cause a horizontal scroll bar if it isn't manually broken.
But white-space: pre-wrap;
is CSS3, thus very browser dependent; more at
Making preformated pre text wrap in CSS3, Mozilla, Opera and IE
Or; you can use a table:
{| style="width:80%; border: 1px dashed #2F6FAB;" | row 1, cell 1 |}
row 1, cell 1 |
It might be worth looking at a pre option for {{ quote box2}}. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 21:07, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} I just blocked one of the AIV helper bots for editing while logged out - see 208.86.225.40 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). Anyone know who is operating that one? Thanks. Wknight94 talk 14:47, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello. When one is not logged in, and want to create an account, he sees MediaWiki:Fancycaptcha-createaccount. This message is so large, that the newbie may not notice there is a registration form under it. Come on, can't we summarize it a bit ? Is every word neccesary ? Should we move that message under the registration form ? Thanks for your attention. :-) Dodoïste ( talk) 21:12, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Comment: the current version is (mostly) my redesign, which I posted here and got only one person commenting on. Suddenly everyone gives a damn?! Anyway the previous version was like this. I was focussed on making that clearer. And now, in response to the point that the form isn't visible, I've added "scroll down..." near the top. PS It had occurred to me that it would be much better, usability-wise, to integrate the instructions with the form, which is the very usual way to do these things! But I don't think we can do that without requesting a software change. Which we can do, of course... Rd232 talk 20:35, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Reflection: Dodoïste makes a fair point and Rd232 is doing a good job as usual. But I think there's a contradiction at the heart of Wikipedia's user account policy that should be part of any new account signup/registration process:
That's correct, isn't it? But these differences aren't mentioned on the "Create account" page (viewed when not logged in), the "Why create an account?" page or the "Welcomecreation" page. It seems to me that there's a drive to oversimplify registration: because if the true responsibilities of registration were known to anonymous editors they would mostly prefer to retain their anonymity. If that's correct, shouldn't any proposal to redesign the signup pages take account of it? - Pointillist ( talk) 23:49, 20 October 2009 (UTC) updated 07:33, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
How about drastically shortening and simplifying the message, to just advise people about the captcha? After all, that's the purpose of the message. Look at http://de.wikipedia.org/?title=Spezial:Anmelden&type=signup as an example.
For more inspiration, take a look at:
Here's what I propose we do for now:
Registering a free account takes only a few seconds and has many benefits.
- To help protect against automated account creation, please enter the words that appear below in the box, without any spaces. ( more info)
- Unable to see the image? An administrator can create an account for you.
That's all we need. Possibly we could re-add a box like is there currently, but it needs to be to the right of the form, rather than on top. We may need a software change (e.g. another system message) in order to do that. -- Aude ( talk) 22:52, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Registering a free account takes only a few seconds and provides a number of benefits.
- You'll need to choose a nickname that satisfies our username policy and does not accidentally reveal your real-life identity.
- In general, if you have already edited Wikipedia using another account, you should not create a new account ( here's why).
- If you've forgotten the password for your existing account, click here for advice.
- If you simply want to change your username, request it here.
- It's a good idea to provide an email address that can be used to send you a temporary password if you ever forget your real one. Other editors won't see your email address, and you can prevent them from sending emails to you if you wish ( here's how).
- To help protect against automated account creation, please enter the words that appear below in the box, without any spaces ( more info). If you can't see the words in the box, ask an administrator to create the account on your behalf.
Looking at the German Wikipedia signup form, they've essentially got below the CAPTCHA/form what we have above it. We've focussed heavily on privacy issues below the form (which we have far more detail on). And they don't mention characters forbidden in usernames, and username policy is two lines. They do mention (which we don't) a 30-character limit on names, and a ban on ALL CAPS. I think there are drawbacks to putting all the info below the CAPTCHA/form, unless we can keep it really short - i.e. it won't get read. I think there are drawbacks too to ditching all the details we have, but Email Address can go, especially if someone can figure out how to edit the "email" message within the form. I've moved the tech details to the boxout, and commented out the Email Address bit, and merged the username/password headers. Maybe more radical changes should wait for the technical enhancements mentioned? Rd232 talk 11:28, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Also, this seems a good place to spam a related idea, discussed at WP:VPR#MediaWiki:Welcomecreation -> Welcome notice. Rd232 talk 17:58, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
FYI, I've revamped the related Wikipedia:Request an account. Second opinion on it would be welcome. Rd232 talk 09:49, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
I suggest that the "Contact Us" page list a subpage for technical markup problems, to call attention to pages where an amateur editor has either caused a problem or can't figure out how to fix it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.18.239.210 ( talk) 12:40, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Thought it might be a good idea to flag up a message posted on the reference desk that the bold red text in diffs is difficult for a user to read because he's colorblind. I'm not colorblind, so I can't really say what's neeed, but perhaps it could be different colors? Diffs do have red text on a green background, which is a common type of colorblindness. -- h2g2bob ( talk) 23:48, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
table.diff {
padding:.5em;
}
table.diff td {
vertical-align:top;
}
td.diff-addedline {
background:#D8E4F6;
}
td.diff-addedline .diffchange {
background:#B0C0F0;
color:#001040;
font-weight:bold;
}
td.diff-deletedline {
background:#E4F6D8;
}
td.diff-deletedline .diffchange {
background:#B0E897;
color:#104000;
font-weight:bold;
}
td.diff-context {
background:#FEFEFE;
}
table.diff, td.diff-otitle, td.diff-ntitle, td.diff-context {
background-color: transparent;
}
Are there any string manipulation parser functions? I'm specifically looking for a way to add an error check to User:Kww/singlechart so that if someone uses {{singlechart|Bulgaria|3|url=whatever}}, I can verify that the url does not contain charly1300 or apcchart, or, conversely, verify that it does contain bamp-bg.org.— Kww( talk) 12:55, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Yes, the devs seem to have some inexplicable resistance to including these string functions. The code exists, everyone wants it, the devs just don't want to let us have it. I think it was last discussed at T21298. The excuse is performance issues (which I can't actually believe - if the server's got enough oomph to format dates and do math, then it can manage to detect one string inside another or measure how long it is); but anyway the workarounds we have to use (the string manipulation templates lined to above) are even more inefficient. All rather bizarre... -- Kotniski ( talk) 13:25, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
As I continue on my quest to automate some of the record chart tables, I've come across an unpleasant problem. There are a few of the major chart sources that use relative time for the URLS: last week is week 1, the week before last is week 2, etc. That means that every reference people place has to be updated every week, and any reference my chart macro creates will have the same problem. Alternatively, I could calculate how many weeks ago a date was, and adjust the URL automagically. Does anyone know of any templates that do date math that I could use as a starting point?— Kww( talk) 23:47, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Can a warning be added to inform the user that the link is not verifiable when the user try to references unreliable source, for example, when the url contains wikipedia.org, baike.baidu.com or blogspot.com?-- Skyfiler ( talk) 23:18, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Could someone please move these images to Commons? Thanks. SharkD ( talk) 08:53, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Is there anything we can do or is a bug report needed? OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 15:27, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
I've created {{ MediaWiki messages}} (along with a page it links to, Wikipedia:MediaWiki) to get an overview of the key MediaWiki messages. I've also added that template to {{ interface explanation}}, which is widely used (more widely than a couple of days ago...) on MediaWiki talk: pages. Only problem: I can't get {{ MediaWiki messages}} to behave itself and be centered at 80% of the width, matching {{ interface explanation}}. Can anyone make that happen? Rd232 talk 16:01, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} Alcoa#Alcoa primary aluminum smelters Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 14:12, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to have WP:CL's deletions page automatically updated to:
As is, manual tracking only does this very poorly, and as a result, articles are deleted or blanked without adequate notice to the WikiProject contributors, which is quite frustrating.
Similarly, it would be nice if we could automatically tag as {{WP conlang}} anything that is listed in certain WP:CL-governed categories, like Category:Constructed languages and Category:International auxiliary languages, since everything in those categories is necessarily of interest to the WP, and users may not know of the WP and how to correctly tag new pages for inclusion in it.
I think this functionality would be of significant utility to all WikiProjects, and could be done in a completely project-agnostic way (e.g. perhaps tied to {{WPBannerMeta}}).
How could it be arranged? Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 07:10, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Anybody else notice that some old page versions are still gone? The 2005 Peer Review version of Technetium, for example, is blank. See [12] Related SignPost entry here. Anything been done about this yet? -- mav ( talk) 04:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
I know I've seen people do this in the past, but I can't seem to locate it right now. Let's say I wanted to do a search in wikipedia for pages that have links to a certain domain (today my concern is geocities.com). How would I do that? -- Bachrach44 ( talk) 16:47, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Done
Hi - I'm an arbcom clerk and I need a variant of the Template:Discussion_top template. (I have no idea how to write templates and would break something if I tried).
Basically my problem is that in Arbcom cases there are often HUGE discussions that need to be closed off. They are also often adjacent, so when you are scrolling down it is hard to tell where one stops and the next begins because the discussion template gives them the same background colour. I have been switching between ((discussion top)) and ((archive top}} in order to get some colour differences, but the wording of these two templates differs and it's a bad look.
Desired template changes:
Being clueless, I'm not sure how this ties in with the ((discussion bottom)) tag.
Any help much appreciated Manning ( talk) 00:44, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
{{Arbdiscuss|colour=<desired colour>}}
. For example, if I fill <desired colour> with, say, ivory, it would produce:Cheers, Intelligent sium 01:34, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to establish a list of encyclopedia pages, mostly about businesses and products, that are invisible to Google and similar search engines?
I've been trying to get rid of obvious spam pages, such as RTTS and Smartsheet (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/RTTS and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smartsheet) but the AfDs always seem to get bogged down on "notability", and the claims that appearing in investment reports or minor trade awards constitutes notability.
Preventing the existence of these article pages from influencing search engine results would allow such pages to continue to exist, while denying them the advertising benefits of search engine manipulation that come from having a Wikipedia page. Having this capability might allow these issues to be resolved without having to resort to deletion process, which seems to be a flawed instrument when it comes to these issues. - Smerdis of Tlön ( talk) 14:00, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
External links in Wikipedia have the rel=nofollow
parameter, so these articles shouldn't raise search engine rank of the companies' websites, if that's what you are concerned about.
Svick (
talk) 19:43, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
There should not be promotional pages on Wikipedia. If there is a page in the article namespace that functions as unworthy advertising for a company or product (that is, not just presenting an encyclopedic coverage that describes a successful and ethical company), then that page needs to be rewritten or deleted, not merely hidden. Happy‑ melon 22:13, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Some variant of this (for spam, BLPs, questionably notable subjects, etc.) is almost a perennial proposal. My response to all of them is: If we don't want the general public to be able to easily find a particular article, we should not have that article. Mr. Z-man 23:50, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I accidentally disabled mobile Wikipedia on my iPod Touch. How can I enable it (without deleting all my cookies)? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nadavzn ( talk • contribs) 14:15, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I think there's no special character returning all articles for performance reasons, so I've been looking for a minimal number of searches returning all of them - or almost all of them, at the time of the latest search index. Assuming any article should contain at least one word in English alphabet, we can do this with 'wildcards' in 26 searches, a* and so on. Can this be done in less than that ? Cenarium ( talk) 20:45, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it able to use a parameter in template, so as it would be once showed as being used in <pre></pre> and next time normally? I need to enter ex. <font color="red">Example</font> as value of a parameter and receive the next result, it would be very useful for showing template function in documentation:
<font color="red">Example</font> |
Example |
Thank you, -- Petrus Adamus ( talk) 17:54, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
{{User:MSGJ/Sandbox4 |open=font color="red" |text=Example |close=/font }}
{{#tag:nowiki|wikicode}}
, {{
pre2}}, and {{
testcase}}, although comments are stripped. —
Dispenser 20:22, 26 October 2009 (UTC){{#tag:nowiki|{{{1}}}}}
when You want to show the code and simply {{{1}}}
for showing the result of the same code. --
Codicorumus
« msg 19:50, 27 October 2009 (UTC)<nowiki>
itself. --
Codicorumus
« msg 19:58, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
''text''
but not if you use a template as the parameter, ex. {{#tag:nowiki|{{date|2006-05-04}}}}
. --
Petrus Adamus (
talk) 23:29, 27 October 2009 (UTC)mobile.wikipedia.org: If you search for "wp:rd/e" then instead of going to the Entertainment Refdesk, as you do on en, instead it comes up with some sort of search results page of articles that supposedly contain that string. Comet Tuttle ( talk) 04:34, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to run a webcrawler over Wikipedia. Are there any guidelines I should be following, or issues to be aware of, lest I knock out a server? OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 13:13, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
The Category: people from Barnet, Vermont
has gone missing. Blue link but error "404-File not found" when clicking.
See for example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Coppenrath
The bio for Taylor Coppenrath. (category at the bottom)
Would appreciate your help.
Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Student7 ( talk • contribs)
They're looking at it, a good purging seems to fix it though. Q T C 17:22, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm getting a 404 error when transitioning from
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Vermont&curid=32578&diff=321980526&oldid=321913665
to see what the next version looked like.
I appreciate that you are probably experiencing many symptoms here and won't report any more 404s today if I can find a workaround.
Thanks
I'm getting this message when I click on preview:
ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to retrieve the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Floydian/sandbox/tests&action=submit The following error was encountered: * Unable to forward this request at this time. This request could not be forwarded to the origin server or to any parent caches. The most likely cause for this error is that: * The cache administrator does not allow this cache to make direct connections to origin servers, and * All configured parent caches are currently unreachable. Your cache administrator is nobody. Generated Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:42:36 GMT by sq43.wikimedia.org (squid/2.7.STABLE6)
And submit:
Not Found The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it. Please inform the site administrator of the referring page.
Seems to be re-occuring right now - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 17:44, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Another similar report has been made at Help talk:What links here.-- Kotniski ( talk) 17:49, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I saw an article with a hatnote that included {{Dablink}}. However, the edit screen included the entire text of the message, even brackets. It seems the template should provide a means to just enter the two names--the one that redirects to that article, and the one someone might be looking for.
I was told about "Not to be confused with" several weeks ago, while this one said "You may be looking for". Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:49, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
dablink}}
is the most general one, when you want to enter something, that isn't in any of those templates.
Svick (
talk) 21:56, 28 October 2009 (UTC)To copy an article in a sandbox generates some problems if catogories is not deleted. I got a three day lock because of this. Maybe it can be fixed or a note given in sandbox usage. Wdl1961 ( talk) 22:31, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I just went to edit Riversleigh Platypus and was served an edit box with right-to-left text! I reverted to an earlier version where the text is left-to-right, but there are still versions in the article history where the edit box is served as RTL. e.g. [16] Note that this is not a case of some idiot reversing the text; the text is correct but somehow MediaWiki has been tricked into serving it up in right-to-left layout. The cause appears to be this diff, in which a vandal changes the {{ inline}} template to {{ enilni}}, i.e. "inline" backwards, a template that does not exist and apparently never has. However it is not at all clear to me how such an edit could cause MediaWiki to screw up so badly, and I have been unable to induce RTL text in my sandbox using this technique. Maybe the problem occurred in the back end, and this was just the first edit after it happened. Does anyone know what is going on here? Hesperian 01:26, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
How do I remove the white guy (or gal or blob) avatar from next to my user name? I prefer the default skin, browsed through others without finding better.
Is there a code to remove the avatar? Or change the avatar? Are there other avatars? Are there custom skins? Or ways to customize this one? -- IP69.226.103.13 ( talk) 07:23, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Is there anything about this on Wikipedia?
I was looking at a Washington Post article and saw a link I could click on, though I don't generally do that. It had a little book beside it, which was new. When I decided to see what that would do, before I had even clicked a pop-up appeared with the Wikipedia article about the person mentioned. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:51, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I would love to contribute a picture of Vannevar Bush's "Memex" drawing in his biography, but I don't know if it's ok to just take a picture from Google and cite it. I tried looking for a picture of the Memex drawing in free picture archives, especially if their description was one of "scanned pictures from old books", but I still couldn't find it. Can't I just cite my sources from Google? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lauranic ( talk • contribs) 23:36, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Instead of the current combination of recursive templates and primitive parser functions, would it be feasible to allow a secure subset of Perl to execute in templates? This should be faster to execute and easier to use than the current system.
I chose Perl as it is designed for text manipulation, has a flexible and concise syntax, and insecure keywords and variables can be easily filtered. OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 13:41, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
What I mean is, the reason it won't be done is purely because no-one can be bothered, rather than it is intrinsically wrong or impossible to do it. Any arguments based on ability to install extensions are completely invalid - I have my own MediaWiki installation, but I can't install cite.php because my host won't allow me to change configurations, yet we're allowed to use it here. OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 15:12, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
It's not that "nobody can be bothered." It's that it's a very difficult problem to solve properly--half assed solutions won't cut it. I would love to work on this project, I think it'd be a lot of fun and would really benefit Mediawiki in the long run. I also would love to have the free time to work on this. The vast majority of developers are volunteers, and the paid development staff's time is usually devoted to more mission-critical things, site operations trumping all. So unless A) Somebody steps forward and is willing to devote the proper time to do this or B) The WMF decides this is mission-critical and allocates paid staff time to it, it remains a pipe dream. ^ demon [omg plz] 23:05, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello all,
I cannot for the life of me get safari to view ANY on wikipedia properly. They show up as enormous files that can't be scrolled or zoomed so that you can only see a tiny portion, usually the extreme upper left corner. I'm using the latest safari, but my OS is Mac 10.4.11 on a late powerbook G4. I tried the SVG help page, but that's more for creators and I was directed here. Firefox works OK, with scrolling enabled, but it's a pain to switch browsers for a single purpose. Safari has supposedly supported SVGs for a while, but I'm not sure of the extent of that support. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. 209.133.78.35 ( talk) 23:55, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Tested on same browser and OS, hardware irrelevant: use Shift+Command+drag to move the image. No "hand" cursor appears, but it behaves as if you have "move content" focus.
Sswonk (
talk) 20:29, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Also, use Shift+- (hyphen) Command+- (hyphen) to zoom out one level of zoom only, further use of Shift+- just toggles try it to see what happens, zooms out somewhat but then toggles.
Sswonk (
talk) 20:33, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey, all. This is a really low-priority question, so I won't be upset if it never gets answered. I am just wondering- why is the number of edits under "my preferences" and not under "my contributions"? Just a bit confused. Thanks! Basket of Puppies 01:56, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
It can also be that it would not be a good idea to show the number of contributions by default, because it would lead to editcountitis among too many of the editors/readers. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 10:16, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
I followed this link from a forum that censors certain words. It goes to a "page does not exist" message, as expected, but the formatting of that message is badly mangled. -- Carnildo ( talk) 09:49, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
* blah blah blah
" to start a bulleted list even in a construct like "foo: {{bar}}
".
Anomie
⚔ 19:54, 30 October 2009 (UTC)I have the box unchecked "Disable access keys" in my preferences. My browser is Firefox version is 2.0.0.20. What is wrong? Accdude92 ( talk to me!) ( sign) 15:49, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
We have 4 sections for posting comments on the MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist.
Would like to enable editing to where a "new subsection" is created within these Individual sections (above). eg;
However within individual topic sections (above), not at the end of the whole page. Is this possible?-- Hu12 ( talk) 17:22, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
As an anonymous IP, I've grown used to hitting a captcha requirement when reverting vandalism, fixing sources, etc. But why did I get a captcha for this edit, when there were no external links added? 99.166.95.142 ( talk) 18:21, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
blpsources}}
adds links to Google, so you can easily look up sources for that article. That may be why you were asked to enter the captcha.
Svick (
talk) 19:15, 30 October 2009 (UTC)Special:PrefixIndex displays the first 200 article titles (beginning with ! and ") before letting the user type in a prefix. The few editors who commented agree that this behaviour is rarely useful and should be removed, especially as the first few titles happen to contain profanities. Anakin believes that it would require a software change and has submitted bugzilla:21143. It was suggested that we advertise the issue here to attract comments from a wider audience. Certes ( talk) 19:47, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Google have created a custom skin that can be found here. The question is does that javascript tell google what pages a person views?© Geni 00:04, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Yes. The first line of the user script inserts a script file hosted by Google, which means they can collect any data they want on you. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 02:23, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
In the end there is no way to use a search database hosted by Google without sending Google the information they need to process your searches. Of course there is no requirement to use Google, you can use the native Mediawiki search. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 11:44, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Shouldn't the directions on User:Csewiki use "importScript" instead of document.write? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 11:43, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Am I right in thinking that MediaWiki:Searchnoresults and MediaWiki:Searchresulttext are no longer in use? What has replaced them? Rd232 talk 12:38, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Incidentally I find it surprising that we seem to find it helpful to show the "Search in namespaces:" box, which is of little relevance to the average reader, by default - and not even collapsed somehow. I'd have thought the one word summaries above that (Content / Multimedia / etc) would be enough. IMO I'd rather hide that complexity and provide a few more help links (eg for creating articles, or asking questions), if it can be done in a clear, non-confusing and unobtrusive way. Rd232 talk 17:42, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Whilst we're on this: if nothing at all matches the search query, MediaWiki:Search-nonefound is shown in addition to MediaWiki:Searchmenu-new. But the latter message refers to "checking the search results below". Perhaps Search-nonefound should be shown instead of Searchmenu-new, with the "create page" option added there. Rd232 talk 12:39, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to make the text appear ontop of the image rather than behind thus allowing it to be clickable? -- penubag ( talk) 01:14, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ Resolved}} The Wikipdia searchbox shows a dropdown of all pages over all namespaces that start with the input. On another wiki where I am admin, there is no such dropdown. How can I add that?
The MediaWiki:Sidebar for this wiki reads
* SEARCH * NAVIGATION ** mainpage|mainpage-description * LINKS * TOOLBOX
Debresser ( talk) 12:40, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
I have written several dozen simple navigational templates which are part of Wikipedia articles. I would like to do something a "bit" more complicated.
I would like to develop a new template that would accept two arguments:
fn (x,y), both integers
1. A constant would be subtracted from the value y. y-c = a. all whole integers
2. Using "a" as an offset, a value "b" would be selected from a table t where hardcoded values have been pre-placed. This value would be a decimal figure.
3. This value b would be multiplied by x to obtain the "answer," the function value. x (and the final value) could be a fairly large number.
The template might look like this to a potential user: {{templatename|x|y}}
I have tried looking at examples of templates and have been dismayed that "convert" (for example) is defined at the highest level by dozens of multiple braces culminating internally with an asterisk. Quite meaningful, I am sure, to the person/people who wrote it, but not a good instructional example IMO.
I would appreciate simpler suggestions (existing templates) as examples that I might emulate. Thanks. Student7 ( talk) 02:10, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to add an additional toolbox to the monobook skin. I already know how to add entries to an existing box with the addPortletLink function in Javascript, that's not what I'm asking. What I want is an extra box or to split the existing box, can this be done? Thanks, SpinningSpark 15:09, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
addPortletLink
as to other toolboxes with the first parameter 'p-usertoolbox'
.
Svick (
talk) 20:21, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
(outdent) I've tried both of the above but am really not getting anywhere. Would one of you be so kind as to look at my User:Spinningspark/monobook.js to see where I am going wrong? Thanks. SpinningSpark 21:12, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
importScript('User:Anakin101/addPortlet.js');
addOnloadHook(function() {
addPortlet('p-tb2', 'title');
addPortletLink('p-tb2', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Spinningspark', 'test');
});
This image was moved to commons, but the POV-Ray source-code that existed on its description page was lost in transit. Is there any chance someone can restore it? SharkD ( talk) 15:56, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
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It says in Help:Job_queue#Typical values:
During a period of low loads, the job queue might be zero. At Wikimedia, the job queue is, in practice, almost never zero. In off-peak hours, it might be a few hundreds to a thousand. During a busy day, it might be a few million, but it can quickly fluctuate by 10% or more.[1] The job queue length is reported at Special:Statistics.
Yesterday night I checked the job queue every ten seconds for two minutes, and it jumped from 9 to 24 and 243 thousand, back and forth. I repeated this with the same result (just different numbers) today. Would you have an explanation for that? It almost looks as though there are three job queues, and you get a random one. Debresser ( talk) 21:49, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
FWIW, the reason you get a few different counts is because you're getting a few different counts. The count comes from InnoDB table statistics on whatever slave happens to run the query, and each slave calculates its own statistics. So it should be reasonably stable if you get the same slave, but two different slaves might have wildly different numbers (since it's a rough estimate). — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 13:55, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
There are three different counts for the job queue. Each of them is consistent (doesn't fluctuate). Just now I had 3000, 348000 and 281000. Debresser ( talk) 14:25, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to have the three names evenly split on the collapsible header bar as they are now, but with the three words on the same line as the hide button.
Here is the code I have:
{| class="navbox collapsible" style="text-align: left; border: 1px solid silver; margin-top: 0.2em;" |- ! style="background-color: #F0F2F5;" | {|width=100% style="background-color: #F0F2F5;" |width=33%| '''Creator:''' |width=33%| '''Nominator: |width=33%| '''Editor Count:''' |} |- | style="border: solid 1px silver; padding: 8px; background-color: white; " | Text |}
Which creates:
| |||
---|---|---|---|
Text |
I would like it to look like this:
Creator: | Nominator: | Editor Count: | [hide] |
Everything is on the same line.
How can I do this?
Thanks in advance. Ikip ( talk) 20:40, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Some information about the table | ||
---|---|---|
Creator | Nominator | Editor Count |
Some informationz. | ||
Some | More | Informationz |
Thanks for the suggestion Izno. The above is a very simplified example. The creator, nominator and editor count actually have names and information attached to them. I would like an editor to be able to see that creator, nominator and editor count information, but spaced evenly along the bar, even if the template is collapsed. Thanks. I have tried span tags, can't get it right, and div tags don't work. Ikip ( talk) 21:00, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
StuffMoarStuff
|
---|
Creator | Nominator | Editor Count |
---|---|---|
Some informationz. | ||
Some | More | Informationz |
{{ resolved}}
Something wrong happened; histories and contributions have changed, there's a unusable delete/undelete button in histories. JS doesn't seem to work. It's been difficult to edit since it happened. Certainly a configuration change caused this ? Has anyone information ? Cenarium ( talk) 17:39, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
JS seems to work again but the strange behavior continues. Here's the Server admin log. Cenarium ( talk) 17:58, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Twice in less than five minutes, I made edits to ( Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2009 October 1) that ended up accidentally undoing the edit just prior to mine. I was unaware of this accident until I was notified about it on my talk page. Seeing that the situation had not yet been corrected, I attempted my own correction here, which resulted in another similar accident. In neither case was I given an automated edit conflict notification, and the edits just went through as if there was nothing wrong.
Was I given a free pass against edit conflicts by a bureaucrat or something like that, giving my edits priority over everyone else's when there's a conflict? Because if that's the case I'll willingly relinquish that "privilege" any time. -- Blanchardb - Me• MyEars• MyMouth- timed 16:59, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
Known by who? Has anybody filed a bug? — Werdna • talk 10:38, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
I have no idea where to appropriately mention this, but this seems like the best place. It would be nice if the Wiki software could somehow incorporate a spell-checker in the "Edit summary" field as it does in the body field. I always try to be as detailed as possible in my summaries and feel quite retarded when I have to tab off the page to go to Google to check my spelling for a comment in the field (as I sometimes have to use "big" words with complicated spelling to get across my point in the limited characters). Anyway, maybe someone else here will get my point. Spell check = good. Especially in a field which can never be fixed or edited again once you see the stupid mistake you've made.
PS I just realized I wouldn't have to tab out to Google like I always do to check my spelling; I could just input it in the body field right above. Don't know why I didn't figure out that little simplicity before, but to each his own. But perhaps the suggestion is still worthwhile.
ALmost every second time I come to Wikipedia the main page is showing in the modern skin. I hav en't set it to show like this, and it often changes back to normal next time I visit the site. Why is this? What is wrong? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.251.147.241 ( talk • contribs)
Hi there,
I am currently using the code {{:List of bla bla}} code to bring in the ifnormaiton from a sub page which was split out of the main article back to teh main one. however the code bring the entire page of the article into the mai article so meaning i can not make the indvidual articles serparate and ther eown articles. what i liek to know is there any way ot alter the code so it only brings in the table from the serperate article?-- Andrewcrawford ( talk - contrib) 12:44, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
{{foos}}
to both of them.
Svick (
talk) 12:56, 3 October 2009 (UTC)It's only "within size" in that it is easier to edit - the page itself is still just as big - or possibly a little bigger. There is currently no good solution to this:
I don't understand any of this technical stuff, but somehow the first onlyinclude above makes everything before it not appear on WP:VPA. Could someone fix this? Ntsimp ( talk) 14:28, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
<
into <
, but I don't understand why was it causing problems, because the onlyinclude was inside nowiki tag, so I think it should have been ok (but wasn't).
Svick (
talk) 14:40, 5 October 2009 (UTC)Anyone know why
doesn't work even with the talk namespace turned on? Rich Farmbrough, 16:57, 3 October 2009 (UTC).
There is a discussion about bibliography articles taking place here. Suggestions being made are of far wider significance than to the specific page in question, therefore any constructive contributions to the conversation would be greatly appreciated. Neelix ( talk) 21:08, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I just wanted to ask about the feature by which new changes (ie. since the page was last visited) appear in bold text in the watchlist. This feature is in place on Commons for example, but not enwiki. My understanding is that it was disabled some time ago due to a glitch which has since been fixed. Are there any plans to re-enable the feature? Doktor Mandrake 16:10, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed that Chrome and Firefox consistently order my top tabs differently from each other- comparison shot here. I've searched and scraped through every line of my Monobook files ( User:Kingoomieiii/monobook.js, User:Kingoomieiii/monobook.css) but I can't find anything that would cause this.
I actually much prefer the Chrome ordering, but Firefox is my baby ;_;
Thoughts? -- King Öomie 16:19, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
A new, time-driven, discussion at Village Pump (proposals) has both technical and non-technical aspects. Your comments and ideas (both technical or non-technical) would be most welcome. Please see WP:VPPR#When GeoCities shuts down, how should we handle links to its sites?. —— Shakescene ( talk) 23:54, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm really interested in creating some tutorials on using Wikipedia. I haven't really fleshed out this idea yet, but I would probably combine screen recording with voice over, and produce short clips of a few minutes on different areas and aspects of editing. I'd start with the basics, of course, but I could move on to introducing things like adding inline citations, uploading images, DYK review, etc.
I discussed this with another editor, and he pointed out that flash would probably work best for screen capture, and that it isn't supported on WP. Hurdle number 1. Assuming that I could use an alternative to flash that would be supported on WP, would the community accept video embedded on Help pages? If it couldn't be embedded, would it be ok to host the videos elsewhere and link to them from help pages? Instead of embedding help pages with videos specific to the content (which would be restricting for me), would it be viable to create a separate help page devoted to the videos? Would the community want to vet them first? How would it be established that they were appropriate?
Another aspect I am wondering about is privacy concerns. Would there be objections to screen shots that would, inevitably, show dozens of user names and some of their associated edits? Would I have to cover up the WP logo?
Has this idea been tried or suggested before and failed?
I hope that's not too many questions for one post! I'm really curious to know if this would work and am interested in hearing feedback. I really think that videos could help us retain editors who find WP initially bewildering. Plus, it would be fun to make them! Also posting to Village pump (proposals) Maedin\ talk 18:40, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
What the section heading says: How do I link to pages that have square brackets in their URLs? Geuiwogbil ( Talk) 06:48, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
I am having difficulty settng up a page do not know where to start. See Dr. Laureen Wishom. How do i get to education awards etc (example Jeffrey Gitomer's page) need help —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr. Laureen Wishom ( talk • contribs) 03:41, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
I created a template with an embedded ref and it is not behaving as expected. The problem template is
Template:American college football All-Americans (usage: {{
American college football All-Americans|Oklahoma|ref=Y}}
). It seems to be adding line breaks or something to cause a <pre> box to show. To see various examples of issues, see
User:Nmajdan/Test/AA. Thanks.—
NMajdan•
talk 16:55, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
I just asked this question at mediawiki irc:
One editor responded: edit $wgCategoryPagingLimit = 200
I responded: This is Wikipedia i have no access to this. Is there any other option?
Another editor responded: There is no way to do it then. Even api call would be limited to 500 pages unless you're a sysop.
How can I list these category pages will API? I hate to think there is no way to list more than 200 pages...
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Parameters_to_index.php#View_and_render does not seem to work. Any suggestions? Ikip ( talk) 18:47, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
I've suggested several times we should increase the default number of pages displayed to (say) 500, but got little reaction either way. Is there any reason not to do it? I can't believe there are performance issues - even with 500 entries a category page will be small compared with many of our most read articles.-- Kotniski ( talk) 08:33, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
What happened to the edit counter link on the user contribs page? Majorly talk 23:37, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
I have been getting cryptic error messages from the Wikimedia Foundation when I try to make an edit. I use the back arrow and save again, sometimes several times, and finally get an edit conflict message - from my own edit. I suspect that what is happening is that something is detecting that it took too long for the edit information to be transmitted, and sometimes it uses it and still gives a failure notice and sometimes doesn't use it and gives a failure notice, which includes the words:
"Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem. This is probably temporary and should be fixed soon. Please try again in a few minutes."
Now amazingly we went from maybe 80% on dialup in the world to about 80% on broadband in a very short period of time, and since I am still on dialup I am guessing that maybe the servers have been tweaked to expect broadband type of speed, or at least good dialup, as my dialup speed often drops to a few bytes per minute! Apteva ( talk) 18:23, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
Changes to the MediaWiki software are adding noindexed pages to Category:Noindexed pages, which doesn't exist (the correct category is Category:Wikipedia noindex pages). Does the category need to be moved or is it intended to be a duplicate? There is also a Category:Indexed pages, which should probably be created. snigbrook ( talk) 19:24, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
The left-floating images in Monreale aren't appearing where they're supposed to. Any ideas? OrangeDog ( talk • edits) 11:39, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Along with having the [unwatch] tag at the article, it should have included in the My watchlist page, along side [rollback] tag:
Example:
(diff) (hist) . . Wikipedia:Good article nominations; 19:55 . . (+98) . . Mootros (talk | contribs) (→Law) [rollback][unwatch]
The benefits:
importScript('User:Alex Smotrov/wlunwatch.js');
Hello, Xeno told me that this external revision history search tool is on history pages by default, but I cannot find it. See User talk:Xeno#Searching for more info and screenshots. Our history pages appear vastly different... BlazerKnight ( talk) 07:54, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
We have 700 or so local interface changes for the English language. Applying those changes to gb english is not the problem. The problem is keeping the changes in sync with the other english original, and the "what about all the other languages" issue. Anyone have ideas ? — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 15:45, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
The long absence of Diberri's tool vexes me cruelly. )0: Can it be helped? -- CopperKettle 05:27, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
Why don't deletions by an admin appear in the contributions page? Simply south ( talk) 21:20, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Category:All articles proposed for deletion says it has 11,907 articles in it, but when I page through the list of articles I see only 613 of them. The smaller number seems like the more reasonable one for this category. What is causing the discrepancy? — David Eppstein ( talk) 22:27, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
Fixed — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 16:13, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
There are several articles (e.g. Nellore) that have been categorised with the form Category:Articles with unsourced statements from month 2,008, i.e where the year has a comma. A list can be seen here. they all seem to be due to {{ fact}} or similar tags, but I can't find a way of correcting the pages. Any ideas? Tassedethe ( talk) 09:51, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
|population_total=
by adding commas every three digits. That field has a {{
Fact|date=April 2008}}
and the template is adding the comma. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk 10:06, 8 October 2009 (UTC)|stat_pop1=
; for
Tskhinvali it is {{
Infobox Settlement}} and |population_total=
. I'm not sure how to fix those templates so they don't try to eat the {{
fact}} templates, other than removing the formatting. You can't fix the citation needed issue, because any references added to the field will get misformatted as well. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk 10:17, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
{{Infobox Settlement|pop=1234{{fact}}}}
it would be {{Infobox Settlement|pop=1234|pop ref={{fact}}}}
. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Anomie (
talk •
contribs) 13:02, 8 October 2009 (UTC)Don't know where to mention this (nor what to do about it), but I just came across an article " South Asians/North Africans". As far as I know such a title is unacceptable in terms of the hierarchical layout of pages on Wikipedia, but I'm really not sure of the specific rules or what to do about it.... Help?
I like the new WP:LDR option for citations. I'm looking into converting a large article, but I recently converted a smaller article, Tina Charles, to the format. After converting, I realized I could add <!1>, <!2> etc, in front of each footnote. Not a big deal, but if I want to edit footnote 4, it's easy to find. The obvious downside is that the numbering is static. If I add new material and cite it, the footnotes automatically renumber, but not my "cheat sheet". My simple question - is there a way to accomplish this? It isn't worth worrying about for a seven footnote article, but if I have an article such as Barack Obama, where I've started a conversion, it's highly likely that footnotes will be added or deleted. It occurs to me that it might be relatively straightforward to write a macro or a bot to automatically add or update the entries, but I thought I'd ask here in case there's a more elegant solution (plus, if the answer is a macro or bot, I need to find someone who can do that.)-- SPhilbrick T 21:52, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible? Large TOCs as in Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Eastern European mailing list/Evidence are hardly more readable than the contents of such pages. TIA, NVO ( talk) 05:49, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
TOC limit}}
will do what you want.
Graham
87 09:05, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it just me (my browser - MSIE) or has something gone wrong with the preview of File:Cards.jpg. If I go there and click on Full resolution, then I get the big image, but I don't get a preview, here or on playing cards. -- SGBailey ( talk) 10:07, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
The contributions screen seems to have a hard time making a choice between:
(latest | earliest) View (newer 100 | older 100) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
and
(latest | earliest) View (newer 100) (older 100) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
A minor, but annoying issue. – xeno talk 12:45, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to ask why, when you first open Wikipedia or return to the home page, is the cursor not automatically placed within the search box? It would make searching easier. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hufri01 ( talk • contribs) 14:27, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
I've tried a redesign of MediaWiki:Fancycaptcha-createaccount, drafted here: User:Rd232/fc. Comments? Rd232 talk 15:23, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey, what's going on with tables? In every article I read table borders and cell lines have disappeared. Is it just me or are they being tweaked? Copana2002 ( talk) 16:43, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
{|
, maybe there isn't any problem. As I can recall, maybe some time ago these tables were rendered as if they would had a first line like that: {| border="1"
. --
Codicorumus
« msg 15:14, 10 October 2009 (UTC)I'm writing a commercial ( financial conflict disclosure) app that generally functions as a browser but I'm getting a lot of 403 and 406 server responses from wikipedia pages.Is there some well know reason this may occur? I could fake the user agent string but so far I haven't had any reason to do that. This became an issue as I was trying to make a note taking browser that makes it easy to copy text from browser pages and do some simple collation on the phone and then mail it to your default email account for later edit and past into a wiki page or talk page. I thought this would be a good way to research during dead time when you may only have access to a smartphone. Thanks Nerdseeksblonde ( talk) 22:52, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} this one : List of Nobel Peace Prize laureates is not accessible ?! from this page : Nobel Peace Prize#List of Laureates ?! kernitou talk 21:50, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to display editnotices for "-"-subpages of a page, specifically Mediawiki:Tag ( Special:Prefixindex/Mediawiki:Tag-) and Mediawiki:Abusefilter-warning ( Special:Prefixindex/Mediawiki:Abusefilter-warning-). It can be done for "/"-subpages because we have titleparts, and so {{ FULLROOTPAGENAME}}, but there is nothing similar I know for -. If there is nothing to get "-"-titleparts, then we could still use a parser function 'ifprefix' on a case-by case basis (used via {{#ifprefix:Mediawiki:Tag-|{{FULLPAGENAME}}|then|else}}), such a function would be of general interest. But I don't think we have this, maybe it's requested ? Otherwise, is there another solution ? Cenarium ( talk) 15:53, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
I don't know if this'll make sense to anybody but me; but, I thought I'd bring it up here in-case anybody thinks there's value to the suggestion. As a regular user/editor (i.e., not an admin/sysop) I'm often working in areas and I see deleted articles where I want to see how long/significant the history has been and where it's gone. I don't know if it would be possible, but it might be nice if the software would allow "regular" users could see histories on deleted articles→just the "special" history page itself, without actually being able to link into any of the versions nor compare them. For various reasons, on a couple of occasions I've wanted to be able to (though not necessarily see the actual article), and I think maybe it should be considered. Comments from other editors (though I don't know if admins will be able to make an objective :P comment on this)? Peace and Passion ☮ ( "I'm listening....") 20:36, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
Is this known ? All null diffs are broken, it seems to be recent, maybe due to the major update a few days ago, which changed appearance of various interface elements. Verified using another browser and logged-off. Cenarium ( talk) 00:43, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi. My watchlist preferences are set to show only the most recent change to each watched page, but a watchlist RSS feed shows all recent changes to watched pages. For example, if I'm watching the "pump" page, and that page has had 20 edits recently, my watchlist will correctly show only the one most recent edit, but my RSS feed list will show 20 entries for "pump". Is that a feature or a bug? Is there any way I can have the RSS feed obey my watchlist preference? Thanks. Rwxrwxrwx ( talk) 09:33, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Bot requests/Archive 31#Unreferenced BLP notification about creating a bot to go through the backlog of unreferenced BLPs, and notify creators and people substantially involved with the article that the article is unreferenced. Rd232 talk 10:09, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
MediaWiki:Robots.txt says "... Disallow: /wiki/Wikipedia%3ARequests_for_adminship/". But searching on an expression in a current RFA pulled up that RFA on Google. Am I reading robots.txt wrong? Is there an accurate list somewhere of which pages are noindexed? - Dank ( push to talk) 02:34, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
When searching archives etc, new users are often confused and create the page. For examples, see Twilight prefix:Talk:Main Page, Prefix:Talk:Main Page, Nobel prize prefix:Talk:Barack Obama or Roumanian Stabilisation Developement Loans prefix:Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives. I suppose many more have been deleted, and it's also worth noting that plenty are present in userspace, see those here ( example), probably prompted by MediaWiki:Newarticletext. A fix would be to remove the create this page link for searches using prefix:, and maybe also when using intitle: and incategory:. So I've filled T23102 pointing here for reference, please indicate if you have any objection. Cenarium ( talk) 00:02, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
The quality of Wikipedia images has markedly decreased. I have been uploading images to the Wikicommons. When adding 'em to Wikipedia, I have noticed that the image quality (resolution) seems to be severely degraded -- something that has happened in the last week or two. Interestingly, it seems to be just on the English language version of WP; I concluded this after comparing images of a Mallory body and cirrhosis in the German and English version of WP. I presume this is to save bandwidth. Does anyone know whether this is temporary? Is it possible the image quality could at least be restored for registered users when they login? Nephron T| C 18:33, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} This [3] article has spacing problems, but there appears to be nothing to fix when I try to edit. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:12, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
I found something that wasn't normal. I finally realized it belonged in the previous section. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:16, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} Hi, this was brought to ANI but it's probably better dealt with over here. The Template:DeLeonism has some strange things happening. When you go to click on the (v) (d) or (e) links at the bottom of the template, it tries to send you to a template with the addition of the word "terrorism" in the title. My knowledge of templates is very limited, but thought someone here might be able to help out the original user who posted it? Thanks! Frmatt ( talk) 03:00, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
When searching archives etc, new users are often confused and create the page. For examples, see Twilight prefix:Talk:Main Page, Prefix:Talk:Main Page, Nobel prize prefix:Talk:Barack Obama or Roumanian Stabilisation Developement Loans prefix:Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives. I suppose many more have been deleted, and it's also worth noting that plenty are present in userspace, see those here ( example), probably prompted by MediaWiki:Newarticletext. A fix would be to remove the create this page link for searches using prefix:, and maybe also when using intitle: and incategory:. So I've filled T23102 pointing here for reference, please indicate if you have any objection. Cenarium ( talk) 00:02, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
The quality of Wikipedia images has markedly decreased. I have been uploading images to the Wikicommons. When adding 'em to Wikipedia, I have noticed that the image quality (resolution) seems to be severely degraded -- something that has happened in the last week or two. Interestingly, it seems to be just on the English language version of WP; I concluded this after comparing images of a Mallory body and cirrhosis in the German and English version of WP. I presume this is to save bandwidth. Does anyone know whether this is temporary? Is it possible the image quality could at least be restored for registered users when they login? Nephron T| C 18:33, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} This [5] article has spacing problems, but there appears to be nothing to fix when I try to edit. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:12, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
I found something that wasn't normal. I finally realized it belonged in the previous section. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:16, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} Hi, this was brought to ANI but it's probably better dealt with over here. The Template:DeLeonism has some strange things happening. When you go to click on the (v) (d) or (e) links at the bottom of the template, it tries to send you to a template with the addition of the word "terrorism" in the title. My knowledge of templates is very limited, but thought someone here might be able to help out the original user who posted it? Thanks! Frmatt ( talk) 03:00, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Isn't there a - amenable - way to search among titles of deleted pages, or deleted content ? Special:Undelete allows only to list pages starting with a given prefix. For example, it would have been useful for the subject of the previous thread, and I had other reasons to search those for maintenance. Cenarium ( talk) 00:17, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
Why won't this category:
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Nashville, Tennessee
show up as a subcategory of:
Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Tennessee
?
Kaldari (
talk) 19:46, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
Why don't we have a touring members section as part of the infobox? In addition to members and former members, I think it would be good to have a Touring members section for band pages; it can help clear the air about who contributed in the studio, who was there for the tour. A band's live history is just as important for fans as their recording history is; I think this section could be beneficial for properly representing everyone who contributed to a band.
Can anyone tell me why the content for several revisions from late 2004/early 2005 are missing on Magic Knight Rayearth? For example: 27 December 2004, 28 January 2005 [7], 7 February 2005 [8] [9], 20 February 2005, and so on. The latest I've found is one from 6 May 2005. I know many early diffs are missing entirely, but I always thought that was constrained to diffs from 2001 and early 2002, and I've never heard of an edit's metadata being kept while its content was deleted, except maybe in some isolated incidents relating to short-lived bugs... Thoughts? 「 ダイノガイ 千?!」 ? · Talk⇒Dinoguy1000 21:33, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
I've noticed some strange things that I have never been able to explain:
Does anyone know what might have caused these oddities? -- Ixfd64 ( talk) 01:06, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm resurrecting this thread. Here is an example of a page without a deletion log. I would like to improve that page to a level that would make suitable for Wikipedia, but I can't find the page, nor the deletion log.
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Xshell&action=edit&redlink=1
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Dandv ( talk • contribs) 08:47, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I noticed today that the lines underneath the section headers in the Vector skin are overlapping some content for me ( [10] is a snapshot from the article Halting problem). Does this happen for anyone else? My browser is Firefox 3.5.3 on Linux. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 11:57, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
<div>
.
Svick (
talk) 12:37, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
(with apologies to Radiohead) Can we do something about IP's having to type a CAPTCHA every time they add a WP:EL, especially if it's stuck in a ref template? I guess that could be complicated to parse, but couldn't the check be done every tenth time and still discourage spambots? I've typed so many now (since I ref the heck out of everything, usually with {{ cite web}}) I've actually reached the end of the list and started back around again at the beginning. -- 209.6.238.201 ( talk) 10:14, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
I don't know whether this is a technical or a policy issue, so I have posted it on both Village Pumps.
Within the last 24 hours, seemingly random underlining with dots has appeared all over Wikipedia. (Is there a name for it?) In my opinion it destroys the readability of Wikipedia articles. It makes words and phrases jump off the page. As far as I can tell, it serves no useful purpose at all, but if people really like the extra linking function there's got to be a less annoying way to mark the links. Can we revert back to yesterday on this thing? HowardMorland ( talk) 17:00, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}}
Could someone re-write Template:Split section/doc#Usage into something resembling English? I have no idea what is strongly recommended. OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 11:18, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Now that we have a bunch of editors who are using vector, and, I assume there are also those of us who have grown accustomed to monobook and won't be changing, what about some kind of way to direct a user to Special:Mypage/(myskin).js or .css ? It would make it a lot easier to explain to newer and less technically-inclined users how to install stuff into their .js and .css pages. – xeno talk 18:11, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
display
code across the sitewide skin code pages to create a template for everyone. {{
Nihiltres|
talk|
edits}} 15:52, 13 October 2009 (UTC) (iPod edit)
Here is a short script that dynamically replaces Special:MySkin.js links with Special:MyPage/skin.js links (with "skin" being the current skin of the user): User:Cacycle/myskinify.js (install using "importScript('User:Cacycle/myskinify.js');"). It does the same to .css links. It works under all skins and with the current versions of Firefox, Chrome, Opera, and IE. The execution time should be negligible and I do not think it would interact with any existing script or gadget. I propose to add this (or something similar) to the common.js. Cacycle ( talk) 04:06, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Whenever you look at an edit by another user you get a line number as part of the display of the actual edit at the top of the page. It would be nice to be able to use this information to go down the page so you can find and see the actual view of the article. -- THE FOUNDERS INTENT PRAISE 17:16, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
Do named parameters not work with #expr? For instance, take the code {{#expr:{{{year}}}+1}}. If year
was 1000, it should return 1001. It works if you do not use a named parameter like this: {{#expr:{{{1}}}+1}}. Unfortunately, I have to use a named parameter as I'm trying to convert an existing template to a new format.—
NMajdan•
talk 19:45, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
When counting the number of hits to a page that has been renamed/moved, should I count the stats for the old page *and* the new page? Or, does a redirect automatically increment the number of hits to both pages? Take for example Wikipedia:WikiProject Koei Warriors Games which was renamed/moved in February. The old link had more hits in April than the new link, which seems weird to me, since visitors to the old page should automatically be redirected to the new page. SharkD ( talk) 00:40, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
Every now and then, the sidebar gets changed, with contents added, removed or changed. Some people could think this doesn't bother anyone, but there are people like me who have defined many things in the personal monobook.css page, and every time something gets changed, everything is screwed up.
I'm getting really annoyed of this. I'd feel much better if this changes were kept to a bare minimum, or at least if these changes were well documented. Sorry if I sound rude, I don't want to, I just would thank if someone gives me some answer, or helps me find how can I track the changes and properly maintain, with little effort, my css. - Keta ( talk) 11:40, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
I can no longer search for individual characters. I tried typing in "|", assuming it would redirect me to the actual article ( vertical bar), but instead I got a page saying that no results were found. Huh?? Surely "|" is used somewhere on Wikipedia... what's the deal? -- Cryptic C62 · Talk 00:37, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm not sure if the ships template would need altering but please see Template_talk:WikiProject_Ships#incomplete_B-Class_checklists if you can assist in making this happen; thanks. -- Brad ( talk) 00:38, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Dear all, I am from Bengali Wikipedia. One small thinks I want to know, how do you create the Tab name of Main Page as "Main Page". If you go to main page of this wiki you can see top first tab called "Main Page". I also send a bug T22987. But they still now give me not any resolution.- Jayanta Nath ( Talk| Contrb) 10:03, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi all,
I'm a bit puzzled by a bug report for my bot, where a "collapsible box" mechanism fails. I've set up a test page to that end, on which you can see the problem. Basically, I try to transclude a page into a collapsible box. However, the box - which on other occassions has always worked fine - collapses only the first lines of the transcluded page. What's going wrong here? It might be related to {{ PR/header}}, but I have no clue what the exact reason is. Any ideas? -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 16:44, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
::{{PR/header|...}}
". With the newline in the template, the raw HTML ends up as something like "<dl><dd><div>...PR/header...</dd></dl></div>
"; either the browser or MediaWiki's tidy interprets that
tag soup such that the div at the end of the PR/header template closes the NavContent div.
Anomie
⚔ 17:44, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Hi; is it possible to set an image as the background to a page (either tiled or stretched) or a box or something? Thanks! ╟─ Treasury Tag► Tellers' wands─╢ 13:56, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
But surely if I want it to show up for everyone viewing the page, it would need to be in the syntax? ╟─ Treasury Tag► constabulary─╢ 14:17, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
I know it's a bug, but in what? A certain template wraps one of the parameters in a formatnum (hint: population), but if somebody tries to add a reference to this population you get strip markers, eg this article. This a bug in PFuncs or Cite? Q T C 10:11, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
I've just noticed that many (all?) pages in Wikipedia: namespace are move-protected, even if there's nothing in the protection log. Is this now the default for this namespace? Has it changed recently, or have I only just noticed it?-- Kotniski ( talk) 14:04, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
On 2009 Philadelphia Phillies season, this error message is displayed about 50 times: "Error: If you specify |archivedate=, you must also specify |archiveurl=." The thing is, they all already have that parameter. What should I do to fix this? I posted this at Template talk:Cite web, and another editor has also independently posted there, but I'm not sure how many people read that talk page. Coemgenus 15:26, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
If you've been seeing error messages to the effect of "Error: If you specify |archivedate=, you must also specify |archiveurl=", it's probably because of recent tinkering with Template:Citation/core and its dependents; discussion is taking place at User_talk:Amalthea#cite_web_etc.. This public service announcement brought to you by Skomorokh, barbarian 15:28, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to add edit notices to special pages?
The reason I ask is that it would be helpful if users emailing user:Oversight and user:Arbitration Committee saw a custom message on Special:EmailUser/Arbitration_Committee along the lines of this.
We could add this to the list of notes on MediaWiki:Emailpagetext, but I doubt people will read that. We could make it blink using a CSS selector for ".page-Special_EmailUser_User_Arbitration_Committee"
Alternatively, it would be good to change MediaWiki:Defemailsubject to something like "Wikipedia email: [change me]". John Vandenberg ( chat) 03:23, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
{{FULLPAGENAME}}
works on
Special:EmailUser, and recognises the subpage as long as it's passed as
Special:EmailUser/ExampleUser. So it should be easy to tweak that message to display a custom text for certain users.
Happy‑
melon 10:08, 15 October 2009 (UTC)It would still be good if individual users could set up their own personal message as well, though... ╟─ Treasury Tag► inspectorate─╢ 18:05, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
{{#ifexist:{{ns:User}}:{{#titleparts: {{FULLPAGENAME}} | 1 | 2 }}/Emailnotice | {{{{ns:User}}:{{#titleparts: {{FULLPAGENAME}} | 1 | 2 }}/Emailnotice}} }}
— Dispenser 22:53, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Nice. Note that this won't work with a link like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser?target=Oversight, only with Special:EmailUser/Oversight. Amalthea 16:27, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
&wpSubject=
in the url too. —
Dispenser 17:34, 19 October 2009 (UTC)If anyone has time to pop over to TMtr template example I could do with a little advice, The template {{ TMtr}} is set up to generate a for a 11 parameter item, a complicated formatted rendering, as two rows in a table. It works and can be used. While working on the documentation, I attempted to input instances with each parameter on a separate line- this broke the template. I have shown it working and not working in the example. The point is that I don't understand what is causing the problem- and how one must cure it. The cure would achieve stability and provide an interesting line to include in H:T. Its not urgent but if anyone has a moment.... -- ClemRutter ( talk) 17:22, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
|
with {{
!}}
inside a template call wherever it is meant as table-|
and not template-|
, but it can make the code quite unreadable.
Svick (
talk) 13:54, 19 October 2009 (UTC){{
StripWhitespace|x = {{{6|}}}}}
has already been witten. It solved all the problems. Thanks guys for all the input- we can all sleep soundly tonight. --
ClemRutter (
talk) 22:19, 19 October 2009 (UTC)I'm using Chrome and everything I to go edit somthing, the first 10 functions are displayed (those icons above the "Subject/headline" box). I have to refresh the page, when this happens, to get the rest of the functions, such as insert table. This is got to be fixed. Maybe a bugzilla report will fix. 174.3.111.148 ( talk) 21:06, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
Any template whiz know how to do (or approximate) the pipe trick in a template. I'd like {{ Font list item}} to have this functionality. OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 23:32, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
[[{{{name}}}|]
. Won't work, I'm afraid, the pipe trick actually expands such a wikilink when saving it, not when displaying it. My writing of [[Foo (disambiguation)|]]
here is expanded to
Foo while saving, check the source text. For limited usage, you might be interested in {{
Title disambig text}} though.
Amalthea 23:56, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
I am unable to get the wayback template to work for the address http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C84105%7C1%7C,00.html as the template stops at the first pipe, malforming the address.
Is there some kind of escape character I can put in front of the pipes so that the template forms a valid address on Archive.org? LeilaniLad ( talk) 17:43, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
{{!}} should work.— Kww( talk) 17:47, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
wayback}}
and both variants work with it:{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271{{! |date=* }}84105{{!}}1{{!}},00.html}} {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271%7C84105%7C1%7C,00.html |date=* }}
Is there a template or a WP on this I could refer to on this subject? LeilaniLad ( talk) 18:24, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
As long as I'm at it, a citation to another Wikipedia article is bad form as well, no? LeilaniLad ( talk) 18:34, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Every time I upload an image, it shows that I uploaded it twice in quick succession under file history. I also get the stupid "uploading file" box that never goes past 0% and doesn't let me click anything else, although the image still gets uploaded. I'm guessing these problems are related somehow. I thought it might have to do with the Beta, but it happens with or without the Beta active. I also tried with and without the new "mwEmbed support" gadget and the Firefogg Firefox extension, but it still happens. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, MrKIA11 ( talk) 20:36, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
How do I make this work properly:
[[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion#{{#formatdate:{{CURRENTYEAR}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTDAY}}|ISO 8601}}|MfD]]
produces: [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion#2024-05-04|MfD]]
Thanks, MrKIA11 ( talk) 11:52, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
<span class="mw-formatted-date" title="2024-05-04">2024-05-04</span>
. For the specific use case here, why not just do [[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion#{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}}|MfD]]
→
MfD?
Anomie
⚔ 12:28, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
[[Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion#{{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY2}}|MfD]]
only gives the right section link for users with no date preference or the right preference.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 13:43, 20 October 2009 (UTC)Hi, friends! I recently printed the article Spontaneous CSF Leak using the built in print option located on the left panel. However, when printed I got a few errors. Namely, the images displayed code and the references all had this little EDIT next to them. I wonder if this is a known issue and can anyone else reproduce it? Thanks! Basket of Puppies 19:42, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
The problem (webserver saying "Please provide a User-Agent header" instead of serving the page) happens only with some URLs (example: [11]). It makes wikipedia stand out as annoying for users who don't normally send the header. I hope this behavior serves a purpose (like, keeping out a bot operated by someone who is smart enough to operate a bot but not smart enough to forge the header). 92.225.64.14 ( talk) 13:35, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
host:
header - are you sure it's wikipedia? You probably can't edit without a user agent. --
h2g2bob (
talk) 23:57, 20 October 2009 (UTC)On several occasions in the past week, all I intended to do was search for something. The article more than likely did not exist, but I wanted to know where the information was.
All Wikipedia would do was tell me there was no such article and give me a red link to create the article. At some point, I was able to find the text I searched for, so the search function should have given me at least the one result and probably more; whether the text was a title of something notable enough for an article is debatable. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:26, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to move the deleted pages listed in Wikipedia:WikiProject Constructed languages/Edit wars and deletions#Old AfDs, DRVs, etc to FrathWiki. Ops on the destination machine can be had.
But as a lowly user on WP, I don't have access to the pages in order to move them over.
Could I get some help?
Thanks! Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 21:57, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
I am just going to copy-paste a thread that I apparently started at the wrong Village Pump:
Hello,
At Special:SpecialPages, under "High Use Pages," we are listing Special:MostLinkedPages. But this page has been out-of-use for some time now. If possible, we should remove it from Special:SpecialPages. SpecialPages ranks 277 in terms of traffic, and it looks amateurish to link to a dead-end from a high-trafficked page. Andrew Gradman talk/ WP:Hornbook 07:11, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
When I go to My preferences > User Profile > E-mail Options, I can't see an option as "Notify me by e-mail when my talk page is changed" while I remember very well that the option used to exist though I never used it but I would like to use it now. Also I can't see "Notify me when the page I watch are changed" while Wikipedia:Preferences states that such option exists. The said two options exist in Wikinews and Commons. Help me out in the earliest, thank you, Srin ivas 10:42, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
I eliminated the sidebar and expanded the main content area to full screen by adding hidePane to my user javascript page. no links were lost. they just got moved to drop down boxes at the top of the page. this is perfect except that I would really like for the links to stay in place while I scroll. How would I do that? Also I'm wondering if you think it would even be possible to create a drop down menu at the top of the page with the table of contents as its content? Lemmiwinks2 ( talk) 17:01, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
For your information, since June, Special:ActiveUsers lists all active users ( T17456), I have linked it from Special:ListUsers ( MediaWiki:Listusers-summary) and at Special:Statistics (from MediaWiki:Statistics-users-active). There's no explanatory message, but it's requested at T21319. Cenarium ( talk) 17:19, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
I have a Wikipedia skin for the Firefox addon
Stylish, and I was wondering if there was any way to have it appear as a skin in the WP preferences dialog. It seems to only work when I press "show preview" while editing, and it only works on that page. Is there any way to convert is into a personal WP skin without modifying any of the original skins? I'm rather new to WP, and (more than) a little confused. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-
Hmmwhatsthisdo (
talk) 01:23, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
I've just created Template:MediaWiki redundant to help identify which mediawiki interface messages are not in use (including those which merely include something else). It could perhaps add a templated category or something as well. I'd like it to distinguish messages which are entirely redundant and messages which include something else, but my brain isn't working enough to do it. Thoughts? Rd232 talk 17:55, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
.../en
message on
Special:AllMessages and
translatewiki: then it's probably obsolete. For example,
MediaWiki:Watchdetails (now a redirect) is obsolete for sure. —
AlexSm 19:03, 22 October 2009 (UTC)A question, short and to the point: is there a way to configure rollback so that it doesn't mark edits as minor? -- Ckatz chat spy 23:07, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Today, I am uses Firefox, and it is sluggish here. Since i am a Nav-PopUp user, it fails to load. Besides that, the BG always sluggish to loaded. Why? The Junk Police ( reports| works) 03:46, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
I just discovered that, apparently, the IBdB doesn't allow external linking to pages within their website. I clicked on the ibdb link on Lend Me a Tenor, which took me to the ibdb main page, so I changed the link to another page within the ibdb website, and that link, too, only takes the reader to the ibdb main page. Is there anything that can be done to fix this, or should we have some sort of policy about linking to ibdb? 99.166.95.142 ( talk) 17:39, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Rapping#Flow Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:13, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
listen}}
template. I
asked on its talk page if anybody knows how to fix this.
Svick (
talk) 00:25, 23 October 2009 (UTC)I started using the Vector skin and I'd like the actions that are now in the drop-down menu (i.e. Watch, Purge, Twinkle stuff) to show as tabs as the rest of them (e.g. Edit, View history). How can I change my user JS or CSS to do this? Svick ( talk) 12:41, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
moveActionOutOfMenu()
function. {{
Nihiltres|
talk|
edits}} 14:48, 21 October 2009 (UTC)addOnloadHook
and I move them the same way, and my code apparently executes before Twinkle's. How can I fix this?
Svick (
talk) 17:08, 21 October 2009 (UTC)For closed XfD discussions, my current monobook.css is set to hide. The problem is, when I'm on the actual AfD discussion page (e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AAAAA), when I actually want to see the discussion, it obviously doesn't show up. How do I configure my CSS to hide when on a log (e.g. Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Log/2007 September 16) but show when on the discussion page? (If that's not possible, I can live with having both collapsed.) -- King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:33, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Ok so the subject isn't clear, so let me use an example rather than trying to explain it
If I put a space before a line, it does a code or quotation box. Unfortunately the text never wraps and will cause a horizontal scroll bar if it isn't manually broken.
Is this proper behaviour (I can't imagine there would ever be an instance when we want this) or is it a bug? - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 18:59, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
<blockquote>...</blockquote>
tag, or one of the quotation templates. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk 20:37, 23 October 2009 (UTC)Is there a variation/a template that I can use to make the box, but have it wrap (for quotations and what not)? (beat me to it Gadget) Or from a vice-versa perspective, can we make a template for code snippets and use the indent space for quotations (probably not at this point I assume)? -
ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ
τ
¢ 20:40, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
You can enclose it in <pre style="width:80%; white-space: pre-wrap;">...</pre>
:
If I put a space before a line, it does a code or quotation box. Unfortunately the text never wraps and will cause a horizontal scroll bar if it isn't manually broken.
But white-space: pre-wrap;
is CSS3, thus very browser dependent; more at
Making preformated pre text wrap in CSS3, Mozilla, Opera and IE
Or; you can use a table:
{| style="width:80%; border: 1px dashed #2F6FAB;" | row 1, cell 1 |}
row 1, cell 1 |
It might be worth looking at a pre option for {{ quote box2}}. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 21:07, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} I just blocked one of the AIV helper bots for editing while logged out - see 208.86.225.40 ( talk · contribs · WHOIS). Anyone know who is operating that one? Thanks. Wknight94 talk 14:47, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello. When one is not logged in, and want to create an account, he sees MediaWiki:Fancycaptcha-createaccount. This message is so large, that the newbie may not notice there is a registration form under it. Come on, can't we summarize it a bit ? Is every word neccesary ? Should we move that message under the registration form ? Thanks for your attention. :-) Dodoïste ( talk) 21:12, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
Comment: the current version is (mostly) my redesign, which I posted here and got only one person commenting on. Suddenly everyone gives a damn?! Anyway the previous version was like this. I was focussed on making that clearer. And now, in response to the point that the form isn't visible, I've added "scroll down..." near the top. PS It had occurred to me that it would be much better, usability-wise, to integrate the instructions with the form, which is the very usual way to do these things! But I don't think we can do that without requesting a software change. Which we can do, of course... Rd232 talk 20:35, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Reflection: Dodoïste makes a fair point and Rd232 is doing a good job as usual. But I think there's a contradiction at the heart of Wikipedia's user account policy that should be part of any new account signup/registration process:
That's correct, isn't it? But these differences aren't mentioned on the "Create account" page (viewed when not logged in), the "Why create an account?" page or the "Welcomecreation" page. It seems to me that there's a drive to oversimplify registration: because if the true responsibilities of registration were known to anonymous editors they would mostly prefer to retain their anonymity. If that's correct, shouldn't any proposal to redesign the signup pages take account of it? - Pointillist ( talk) 23:49, 20 October 2009 (UTC) updated 07:33, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
How about drastically shortening and simplifying the message, to just advise people about the captcha? After all, that's the purpose of the message. Look at http://de.wikipedia.org/?title=Spezial:Anmelden&type=signup as an example.
For more inspiration, take a look at:
Here's what I propose we do for now:
Registering a free account takes only a few seconds and has many benefits.
- To help protect against automated account creation, please enter the words that appear below in the box, without any spaces. ( more info)
- Unable to see the image? An administrator can create an account for you.
That's all we need. Possibly we could re-add a box like is there currently, but it needs to be to the right of the form, rather than on top. We may need a software change (e.g. another system message) in order to do that. -- Aude ( talk) 22:52, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Registering a free account takes only a few seconds and provides a number of benefits.
- You'll need to choose a nickname that satisfies our username policy and does not accidentally reveal your real-life identity.
- In general, if you have already edited Wikipedia using another account, you should not create a new account ( here's why).
- If you've forgotten the password for your existing account, click here for advice.
- If you simply want to change your username, request it here.
- It's a good idea to provide an email address that can be used to send you a temporary password if you ever forget your real one. Other editors won't see your email address, and you can prevent them from sending emails to you if you wish ( here's how).
- To help protect against automated account creation, please enter the words that appear below in the box, without any spaces ( more info). If you can't see the words in the box, ask an administrator to create the account on your behalf.
Looking at the German Wikipedia signup form, they've essentially got below the CAPTCHA/form what we have above it. We've focussed heavily on privacy issues below the form (which we have far more detail on). And they don't mention characters forbidden in usernames, and username policy is two lines. They do mention (which we don't) a 30-character limit on names, and a ban on ALL CAPS. I think there are drawbacks to putting all the info below the CAPTCHA/form, unless we can keep it really short - i.e. it won't get read. I think there are drawbacks too to ditching all the details we have, but Email Address can go, especially if someone can figure out how to edit the "email" message within the form. I've moved the tech details to the boxout, and commented out the Email Address bit, and merged the username/password headers. Maybe more radical changes should wait for the technical enhancements mentioned? Rd232 talk 11:28, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
Also, this seems a good place to spam a related idea, discussed at WP:VPR#MediaWiki:Welcomecreation -> Welcome notice. Rd232 talk 17:58, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
FYI, I've revamped the related Wikipedia:Request an account. Second opinion on it would be welcome. Rd232 talk 09:49, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
I suggest that the "Contact Us" page list a subpage for technical markup problems, to call attention to pages where an amateur editor has either caused a problem or can't figure out how to fix it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.18.239.210 ( talk) 12:40, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
Thought it might be a good idea to flag up a message posted on the reference desk that the bold red text in diffs is difficult for a user to read because he's colorblind. I'm not colorblind, so I can't really say what's neeed, but perhaps it could be different colors? Diffs do have red text on a green background, which is a common type of colorblindness. -- h2g2bob ( talk) 23:48, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
table.diff {
padding:.5em;
}
table.diff td {
vertical-align:top;
}
td.diff-addedline {
background:#D8E4F6;
}
td.diff-addedline .diffchange {
background:#B0C0F0;
color:#001040;
font-weight:bold;
}
td.diff-deletedline {
background:#E4F6D8;
}
td.diff-deletedline .diffchange {
background:#B0E897;
color:#104000;
font-weight:bold;
}
td.diff-context {
background:#FEFEFE;
}
table.diff, td.diff-otitle, td.diff-ntitle, td.diff-context {
background-color: transparent;
}
Are there any string manipulation parser functions? I'm specifically looking for a way to add an error check to User:Kww/singlechart so that if someone uses {{singlechart|Bulgaria|3|url=whatever}}, I can verify that the url does not contain charly1300 or apcchart, or, conversely, verify that it does contain bamp-bg.org.— Kww( talk) 12:55, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Yes, the devs seem to have some inexplicable resistance to including these string functions. The code exists, everyone wants it, the devs just don't want to let us have it. I think it was last discussed at T21298. The excuse is performance issues (which I can't actually believe - if the server's got enough oomph to format dates and do math, then it can manage to detect one string inside another or measure how long it is); but anyway the workarounds we have to use (the string manipulation templates lined to above) are even more inefficient. All rather bizarre... -- Kotniski ( talk) 13:25, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
As I continue on my quest to automate some of the record chart tables, I've come across an unpleasant problem. There are a few of the major chart sources that use relative time for the URLS: last week is week 1, the week before last is week 2, etc. That means that every reference people place has to be updated every week, and any reference my chart macro creates will have the same problem. Alternatively, I could calculate how many weeks ago a date was, and adjust the URL automagically. Does anyone know of any templates that do date math that I could use as a starting point?— Kww( talk) 23:47, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
Can a warning be added to inform the user that the link is not verifiable when the user try to references unreliable source, for example, when the url contains wikipedia.org, baike.baidu.com or blogspot.com?-- Skyfiler ( talk) 23:18, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
Could someone please move these images to Commons? Thanks. SharkD ( talk) 08:53, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Is there anything we can do or is a bug report needed? OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 15:27, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
I've created {{ MediaWiki messages}} (along with a page it links to, Wikipedia:MediaWiki) to get an overview of the key MediaWiki messages. I've also added that template to {{ interface explanation}}, which is widely used (more widely than a couple of days ago...) on MediaWiki talk: pages. Only problem: I can't get {{ MediaWiki messages}} to behave itself and be centered at 80% of the width, matching {{ interface explanation}}. Can anyone make that happen? Rd232 talk 16:01, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ resolved}} Alcoa#Alcoa primary aluminum smelters Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 14:12, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to have WP:CL's deletions page automatically updated to:
As is, manual tracking only does this very poorly, and as a result, articles are deleted or blanked without adequate notice to the WikiProject contributors, which is quite frustrating.
Similarly, it would be nice if we could automatically tag as {{WP conlang}} anything that is listed in certain WP:CL-governed categories, like Category:Constructed languages and Category:International auxiliary languages, since everything in those categories is necessarily of interest to the WP, and users may not know of the WP and how to correctly tag new pages for inclusion in it.
I think this functionality would be of significant utility to all WikiProjects, and could be done in a completely project-agnostic way (e.g. perhaps tied to {{WPBannerMeta}}).
How could it be arranged? Sai Emrys ¿? ✍ 07:10, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
Anybody else notice that some old page versions are still gone? The 2005 Peer Review version of Technetium, for example, is blank. See [12] Related SignPost entry here. Anything been done about this yet? -- mav ( talk) 04:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
I know I've seen people do this in the past, but I can't seem to locate it right now. Let's say I wanted to do a search in wikipedia for pages that have links to a certain domain (today my concern is geocities.com). How would I do that? -- Bachrach44 ( talk) 16:47, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Done
Hi - I'm an arbcom clerk and I need a variant of the Template:Discussion_top template. (I have no idea how to write templates and would break something if I tried).
Basically my problem is that in Arbcom cases there are often HUGE discussions that need to be closed off. They are also often adjacent, so when you are scrolling down it is hard to tell where one stops and the next begins because the discussion template gives them the same background colour. I have been switching between ((discussion top)) and ((archive top}} in order to get some colour differences, but the wording of these two templates differs and it's a bad look.
Desired template changes:
Being clueless, I'm not sure how this ties in with the ((discussion bottom)) tag.
Any help much appreciated Manning ( talk) 00:44, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
{{Arbdiscuss|colour=<desired colour>}}
. For example, if I fill <desired colour> with, say, ivory, it would produce:Cheers, Intelligent sium 01:34, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Would it be possible to establish a list of encyclopedia pages, mostly about businesses and products, that are invisible to Google and similar search engines?
I've been trying to get rid of obvious spam pages, such as RTTS and Smartsheet (see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/RTTS and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Smartsheet) but the AfDs always seem to get bogged down on "notability", and the claims that appearing in investment reports or minor trade awards constitutes notability.
Preventing the existence of these article pages from influencing search engine results would allow such pages to continue to exist, while denying them the advertising benefits of search engine manipulation that come from having a Wikipedia page. Having this capability might allow these issues to be resolved without having to resort to deletion process, which seems to be a flawed instrument when it comes to these issues. - Smerdis of Tlön ( talk) 14:00, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
External links in Wikipedia have the rel=nofollow
parameter, so these articles shouldn't raise search engine rank of the companies' websites, if that's what you are concerned about.
Svick (
talk) 19:43, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
There should not be promotional pages on Wikipedia. If there is a page in the article namespace that functions as unworthy advertising for a company or product (that is, not just presenting an encyclopedic coverage that describes a successful and ethical company), then that page needs to be rewritten or deleted, not merely hidden. Happy‑ melon 22:13, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Some variant of this (for spam, BLPs, questionably notable subjects, etc.) is almost a perennial proposal. My response to all of them is: If we don't want the general public to be able to easily find a particular article, we should not have that article. Mr. Z-man 23:50, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I accidentally disabled mobile Wikipedia on my iPod Touch. How can I enable it (without deleting all my cookies)? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nadavzn ( talk • contribs) 14:15, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
I think there's no special character returning all articles for performance reasons, so I've been looking for a minimal number of searches returning all of them - or almost all of them, at the time of the latest search index. Assuming any article should contain at least one word in English alphabet, we can do this with 'wildcards' in 26 searches, a* and so on. Can this be done in less than that ? Cenarium ( talk) 20:45, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it able to use a parameter in template, so as it would be once showed as being used in <pre></pre> and next time normally? I need to enter ex. <font color="red">Example</font> as value of a parameter and receive the next result, it would be very useful for showing template function in documentation:
<font color="red">Example</font> |
Example |
Thank you, -- Petrus Adamus ( talk) 17:54, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
{{User:MSGJ/Sandbox4 |open=font color="red" |text=Example |close=/font }}
{{#tag:nowiki|wikicode}}
, {{
pre2}}, and {{
testcase}}, although comments are stripped. —
Dispenser 20:22, 26 October 2009 (UTC){{#tag:nowiki|{{{1}}}}}
when You want to show the code and simply {{{1}}}
for showing the result of the same code. --
Codicorumus
« msg 19:50, 27 October 2009 (UTC)<nowiki>
itself. --
Codicorumus
« msg 19:58, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
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but not if you use a template as the parameter, ex. {{#tag:nowiki|{{date|2006-05-04}}}}
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Petrus Adamus (
talk) 23:29, 27 October 2009 (UTC)mobile.wikipedia.org: If you search for "wp:rd/e" then instead of going to the Entertainment Refdesk, as you do on en, instead it comes up with some sort of search results page of articles that supposedly contain that string. Comet Tuttle ( talk) 04:34, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I'd like to run a webcrawler over Wikipedia. Are there any guidelines I should be following, or issues to be aware of, lest I knock out a server? OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 13:13, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
The Category: people from Barnet, Vermont
has gone missing. Blue link but error "404-File not found" when clicking.
See for example,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taylor_Coppenrath
The bio for Taylor Coppenrath. (category at the bottom)
Would appreciate your help.
Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Student7 ( talk • contribs)
They're looking at it, a good purging seems to fix it though. Q T C 17:22, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I'm getting a 404 error when transitioning from
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Vermont&curid=32578&diff=321980526&oldid=321913665
to see what the next version looked like.
I appreciate that you are probably experiencing many symptoms here and won't report any more 404s today if I can find a workaround.
Thanks
I'm getting this message when I click on preview:
ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to retrieve the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Floydian/sandbox/tests&action=submit The following error was encountered: * Unable to forward this request at this time. This request could not be forwarded to the origin server or to any parent caches. The most likely cause for this error is that: * The cache administrator does not allow this cache to make direct connections to origin servers, and * All configured parent caches are currently unreachable. Your cache administrator is nobody. Generated Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:42:36 GMT by sq43.wikimedia.org (squid/2.7.STABLE6)
And submit:
Not Found The requested object does not exist on this server. The link you followed is either outdated, inaccurate, or the server has been instructed not to let you have it. Please inform the site administrator of the referring page.
Seems to be re-occuring right now - ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 17:44, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Another similar report has been made at Help talk:What links here.-- Kotniski ( talk) 17:49, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I saw an article with a hatnote that included {{Dablink}}. However, the edit screen included the entire text of the message, even brackets. It seems the template should provide a means to just enter the two names--the one that redirects to that article, and the one someone might be looking for.
I was told about "Not to be confused with" several weeks ago, while this one said "You may be looking for". Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:49, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
dablink}}
is the most general one, when you want to enter something, that isn't in any of those templates.
Svick (
talk) 21:56, 28 October 2009 (UTC)To copy an article in a sandbox generates some problems if catogories is not deleted. I got a three day lock because of this. Maybe it can be fixed or a note given in sandbox usage. Wdl1961 ( talk) 22:31, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I just went to edit Riversleigh Platypus and was served an edit box with right-to-left text! I reverted to an earlier version where the text is left-to-right, but there are still versions in the article history where the edit box is served as RTL. e.g. [16] Note that this is not a case of some idiot reversing the text; the text is correct but somehow MediaWiki has been tricked into serving it up in right-to-left layout. The cause appears to be this diff, in which a vandal changes the {{ inline}} template to {{ enilni}}, i.e. "inline" backwards, a template that does not exist and apparently never has. However it is not at all clear to me how such an edit could cause MediaWiki to screw up so badly, and I have been unable to induce RTL text in my sandbox using this technique. Maybe the problem occurred in the back end, and this was just the first edit after it happened. Does anyone know what is going on here? Hesperian 01:26, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
How do I remove the white guy (or gal or blob) avatar from next to my user name? I prefer the default skin, browsed through others without finding better.
Is there a code to remove the avatar? Or change the avatar? Are there other avatars? Are there custom skins? Or ways to customize this one? -- IP69.226.103.13 ( talk) 07:23, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
Is there anything about this on Wikipedia?
I was looking at a Washington Post article and saw a link I could click on, though I don't generally do that. It had a little book beside it, which was new. When I decided to see what that would do, before I had even clicked a pop-up appeared with the Wikipedia article about the person mentioned. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 19:51, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
I would love to contribute a picture of Vannevar Bush's "Memex" drawing in his biography, but I don't know if it's ok to just take a picture from Google and cite it. I tried looking for a picture of the Memex drawing in free picture archives, especially if their description was one of "scanned pictures from old books", but I still couldn't find it. Can't I just cite my sources from Google? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lauranic ( talk • contribs) 23:36, 28 October 2009 (UTC)
Instead of the current combination of recursive templates and primitive parser functions, would it be feasible to allow a secure subset of Perl to execute in templates? This should be faster to execute and easier to use than the current system.
I chose Perl as it is designed for text manipulation, has a flexible and concise syntax, and insecure keywords and variables can be easily filtered. OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 13:41, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
What I mean is, the reason it won't be done is purely because no-one can be bothered, rather than it is intrinsically wrong or impossible to do it. Any arguments based on ability to install extensions are completely invalid - I have my own MediaWiki installation, but I can't install cite.php because my host won't allow me to change configurations, yet we're allowed to use it here. OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 15:12, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
It's not that "nobody can be bothered." It's that it's a very difficult problem to solve properly--half assed solutions won't cut it. I would love to work on this project, I think it'd be a lot of fun and would really benefit Mediawiki in the long run. I also would love to have the free time to work on this. The vast majority of developers are volunteers, and the paid development staff's time is usually devoted to more mission-critical things, site operations trumping all. So unless A) Somebody steps forward and is willing to devote the proper time to do this or B) The WMF decides this is mission-critical and allocates paid staff time to it, it remains a pipe dream. ^ demon [omg plz] 23:05, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Hello all,
I cannot for the life of me get safari to view ANY on wikipedia properly. They show up as enormous files that can't be scrolled or zoomed so that you can only see a tiny portion, usually the extreme upper left corner. I'm using the latest safari, but my OS is Mac 10.4.11 on a late powerbook G4. I tried the SVG help page, but that's more for creators and I was directed here. Firefox works OK, with scrolling enabled, but it's a pain to switch browsers for a single purpose. Safari has supposedly supported SVGs for a while, but I'm not sure of the extent of that support. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. 209.133.78.35 ( talk) 23:55, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Tested on same browser and OS, hardware irrelevant: use Shift+Command+drag to move the image. No "hand" cursor appears, but it behaves as if you have "move content" focus.
Sswonk (
talk) 20:29, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Also, use Shift+- (hyphen) Command+- (hyphen) to zoom out one level of zoom only, further use of Shift+- just toggles try it to see what happens, zooms out somewhat but then toggles.
Sswonk (
talk) 20:33, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Hey, all. This is a really low-priority question, so I won't be upset if it never gets answered. I am just wondering- why is the number of edits under "my preferences" and not under "my contributions"? Just a bit confused. Thanks! Basket of Puppies 01:56, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
It can also be that it would not be a good idea to show the number of contributions by default, because it would lead to editcountitis among too many of the editors/readers. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 10:16, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
I followed this link from a forum that censors certain words. It goes to a "page does not exist" message, as expected, but the formatting of that message is badly mangled. -- Carnildo ( talk) 09:49, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
* blah blah blah
" to start a bulleted list even in a construct like "foo: {{bar}}
".
Anomie
⚔ 19:54, 30 October 2009 (UTC)I have the box unchecked "Disable access keys" in my preferences. My browser is Firefox version is 2.0.0.20. What is wrong? Accdude92 ( talk to me!) ( sign) 15:49, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
We have 4 sections for posting comments on the MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist.
Would like to enable editing to where a "new subsection" is created within these Individual sections (above). eg;
However within individual topic sections (above), not at the end of the whole page. Is this possible?-- Hu12 ( talk) 17:22, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
As an anonymous IP, I've grown used to hitting a captcha requirement when reverting vandalism, fixing sources, etc. But why did I get a captcha for this edit, when there were no external links added? 99.166.95.142 ( talk) 18:21, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
{{
blpsources}}
adds links to Google, so you can easily look up sources for that article. That may be why you were asked to enter the captcha.
Svick (
talk) 19:15, 30 October 2009 (UTC)Special:PrefixIndex displays the first 200 article titles (beginning with ! and ") before letting the user type in a prefix. The few editors who commented agree that this behaviour is rarely useful and should be removed, especially as the first few titles happen to contain profanities. Anakin believes that it would require a software change and has submitted bugzilla:21143. It was suggested that we advertise the issue here to attract comments from a wider audience. Certes ( talk) 19:47, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Google have created a custom skin that can be found here. The question is does that javascript tell google what pages a person views?© Geni 00:04, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Yes. The first line of the user script inserts a script file hosted by Google, which means they can collect any data they want on you. — Simetrical ( talk • contribs) 02:23, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
In the end there is no way to use a search database hosted by Google without sending Google the information they need to process your searches. Of course there is no requirement to use Google, you can use the native Mediawiki search. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 11:44, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Shouldn't the directions on User:Csewiki use "importScript" instead of document.write? — Carl ( CBM · talk) 11:43, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
Am I right in thinking that MediaWiki:Searchnoresults and MediaWiki:Searchresulttext are no longer in use? What has replaced them? Rd232 talk 12:38, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
Incidentally I find it surprising that we seem to find it helpful to show the "Search in namespaces:" box, which is of little relevance to the average reader, by default - and not even collapsed somehow. I'd have thought the one word summaries above that (Content / Multimedia / etc) would be enough. IMO I'd rather hide that complexity and provide a few more help links (eg for creating articles, or asking questions), if it can be done in a clear, non-confusing and unobtrusive way. Rd232 talk 17:42, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Whilst we're on this: if nothing at all matches the search query, MediaWiki:Search-nonefound is shown in addition to MediaWiki:Searchmenu-new. But the latter message refers to "checking the search results below". Perhaps Search-nonefound should be shown instead of Searchmenu-new, with the "create page" option added there. Rd232 talk 12:39, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
Is it possible to make the text appear ontop of the image rather than behind thus allowing it to be clickable? -- penubag ( talk) 01:14, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
{{ Resolved}} The Wikipdia searchbox shows a dropdown of all pages over all namespaces that start with the input. On another wiki where I am admin, there is no such dropdown. How can I add that?
The MediaWiki:Sidebar for this wiki reads
* SEARCH * NAVIGATION ** mainpage|mainpage-description * LINKS * TOOLBOX
Debresser ( talk) 12:40, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
I have written several dozen simple navigational templates which are part of Wikipedia articles. I would like to do something a "bit" more complicated.
I would like to develop a new template that would accept two arguments:
fn (x,y), both integers
1. A constant would be subtracted from the value y. y-c = a. all whole integers
2. Using "a" as an offset, a value "b" would be selected from a table t where hardcoded values have been pre-placed. This value would be a decimal figure.
3. This value b would be multiplied by x to obtain the "answer," the function value. x (and the final value) could be a fairly large number.
The template might look like this to a potential user: {{templatename|x|y}}
I have tried looking at examples of templates and have been dismayed that "convert" (for example) is defined at the highest level by dozens of multiple braces culminating internally with an asterisk. Quite meaningful, I am sure, to the person/people who wrote it, but not a good instructional example IMO.
I would appreciate simpler suggestions (existing templates) as examples that I might emulate. Thanks. Student7 ( talk) 02:10, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
I would like to add an additional toolbox to the monobook skin. I already know how to add entries to an existing box with the addPortletLink function in Javascript, that's not what I'm asking. What I want is an extra box or to split the existing box, can this be done? Thanks, SpinningSpark 15:09, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
addPortletLink
as to other toolboxes with the first parameter 'p-usertoolbox'
.
Svick (
talk) 20:21, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
(outdent) I've tried both of the above but am really not getting anywhere. Would one of you be so kind as to look at my User:Spinningspark/monobook.js to see where I am going wrong? Thanks. SpinningSpark 21:12, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
importScript('User:Anakin101/addPortlet.js');
addOnloadHook(function() {
addPortlet('p-tb2', 'title');
addPortletLink('p-tb2', 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Spinningspark', 'test');
});
This image was moved to commons, but the POV-Ray source-code that existed on its description page was lost in transit. Is there any chance someone can restore it? SharkD ( talk) 15:56, 31 October 2009 (UTC)