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Something is wrong with the new messages functionality for me. Maybe 30 minutes ago I started getting these notices when there were no new messages. Sometimes there's a short delay before the message stops appearing after I've checked my messages. Once it goes away, it reappears withing a few minutes. -- Ronz ( talk) 19:06, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm getting indications that articles I've been editing don't even exist, and that people I send Talk messages to are not even registered. Server lag? Everard Proudfoot ( talk) 22:43, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
It looks like this needs to be exposed publicly, because I see lots of people blanking pages. Everard Proudfoot ( talk) 23:17, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Every time I go to Recent changes, I still get the page as of 22:10. I have to clear cache every time, sometimes twice. Everard Proudfoot ( talk) 23:25, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
It appears to be an issue with one of the database servers only (db40). I've alerted our sysadmins to this and it should be sorted out soon.-- Eloquence * 00:25, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
False alarm. My bad. – droll [chat] 03:25, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm getting the new messages bar really frequently even after I check the message. Its been about and hour since the real new message appeared. Derild 49 21 ☼ 23:26, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
This gadget is apparently redundant since there's an "edit area font style" option in preferences. vvv t 00:32, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
So it seems that there is a function named #tag somewhere. It's used in {{ nowiki}} and in several other templates I've looked at. Does any one know if it's documented anywhere. I would expect it to be at MediaWiki somewhere but I can't find it. The syntax seems to be {{#tag: (tag name) | (string) }} —Preceding unsigned comment added by Droll ( talk • contribs) 02:24, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
nowiki
or imagemap
) without the HTML opening and closing < >
.
Intelligent
sock 02:30, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
{{#tag:nowiki|{{{1}}}}}
to accept a parameter and then nowiki it (producing code such as <nowiki>http://ezinearticles.com/</nowiki>
instead of <nowiki>{{{1}}}</nowiki>
from the parameter http://ezinearticles.com/
).
PleaseStand
(talk) 02:39, 3 July 2010 (UTC)I'm looking for a template to easily equip a template with hex no.s such as in Template:Infobox military unit. Where do I find it? E.g. {{hexcol|#######|########}}. -- 217.189.229.123 ( talk) 23:36, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
{{color box|blue}} {{color box|yellow}}
gives and <code>{{color box|blue}} {{color box|yellow}}<code>
gives
. --
Scriberius (
talk) 11:08, 3 July 2010 (UTC)I hope I'm not reposting this question.. When I access an OGG or OGV file with Firefox on my Mac, the buttons are blank -- see this image, taken from this article. It doesn't happen with Safari; that player is sleek and works fine. Perhaps there is something I need to adjust on my browser? I expect other users are having this problem, too. Cheers! Scartol • Tok 12:55, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I raised this issue in mid-June. The problem persists. It happens whether I'm logged in or not logged in. It seems to get worse the more I use WP in a given session, but that could be coincidental. When I click on something, Firefox 3.6.6 gives me a "waiting for . . ." message in the status bar. It can sometimes take 20-40 seconds to come back. Other times, no wait at all. If there is an excessive wait and I click on the link again, I usually get an instantaneous response. On some things, though, I'm reluctant to click twice because I'm not sure what effect it will have on the database, i.e., saving editing changes. My Internet download connection speed is above 10Mbps. I don't have this problem on other sites. I simply don't know what to do, but editing has become very frustrating because of it.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:38, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I followed advice I was given here when I found out my computer still had pages I had visited even though I appeared to have no history. Now, though, I seem to have to sign in everywhere, including Wikipedia. It's not that big a deal since my computer has the software which fills in passwords automatically, though without that I was unable to access one of my email accounts because of rules they have about passwords (though I still remember that crazy password for that address). I can remember the password if the password software messes up, since I use Wikipedia at libraries, but it's just annoying. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:25, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, what I'd like to do, for example, is have a little program/macro that can interface with non-editable Wikipedia pages such as 'My contributions' (or, someone else's contributions). Ideally it would read and collect (in memory or as an appendable file) a pageful of data at a time, then virtually click on 'next 100' until the end. I can write code, but I don't know how to interface with Wikipedia, or what language is required. I'm sure this is spelled out somewhere, so if you just point me to the documentation I can figure out what I might be in for. Thank you, CliffC ( talk) 22:01, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Anybody care to venture as to why the insecure wikipedia is down? The secure still seems to be partially up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.115.30.110 ( talk) 01:44, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
(I know this is the wrong place, but it is up enough to receive edits :-) )
The error page for wikinews.org still refers to Meta in its title, heading and icon. Mark Hurd 121.45.22.104 ( talk) 02:49, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
I would like to know which function do we use when copying a content from a wikipage or from a textfile to a wikipage or a textfile. Thanks in advance, -- Jagwar - (( talk )) 10:56, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
dict.txt
with the content encoded as
UTF-8 and set out like this:{{-start-}} '''Title of first article''' Wikitext of first article goes here {{-stop-}} {{-start-}} '''Title of second article''' Wikitext of second article goes here {{-stop-}}
— Richardguk ( talk) 15:03, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
X:/.../pagefromfile.py -start:{st} -end:{ed} reading dict.txt End of file.
This might be more appropriate on Commons, but I got a positive result here the last time I had the same problem. This file was moved to Commons a few days ago, but thumbnail generation seems to be broken: is there a way to force it to be regenerated? The SVG itself looks to be okay once it's clicked through. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 09:17, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Hmmm. Was this caused by the upload process, or just a bug in the original file? Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 21:19, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm hoping there is a way to discover the height of an image assuming that the name of the image file and the width are known. I realize this not likely but I thought I'd ask anyway. It would be useful in a template I've been working on. – droll [chat] 04:53, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
xHeightpx
or WidthxHeightpx
) help you?
Svick (
talk) 12:31, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
P.S. The template could use a better name. – droll [chat] 02:05, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
#mediaheight
and #mediawidth
) but
is not currently installed on English Wikipedia. So the information cannot be obtained by templates on this wiki. —
Richardguk (
talk) 06:30, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Maybe this is a strange way to do it, but I put links to web pages I want to go to in emails to myself so I can do it from any computer.
There was a link to [1]--at least that's what is visible in the email. [2] is what came up.
Likewise, [3] appears in the email, but clicking on it produces [4]. You'll probably send me to the Computing Reference Desk since it's not likely a Wikipedia problem, but I don't see how something like this could happen. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:44, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
"Somehow or other" doesn't answer the question. It doesn't seem to provide me with a way to "View Source". Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 22:28, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
<a href = "http://www.example.com/the_old_version" >http://www.example.com/the_new_version</a>
(which in Wikitext is equivalent to
http://www.example.com/the_new_version
or loosely equivalent to a misleading piped link like [[the_old_version|the_new_version]]
). So just delete the old stuff and paste the URL in from plain text afresh, to ensure that you are not inadvertently pasting in hidden code. (If you are copying from HTML, such as your web browser, and don't know how to make sure it is only plain text when you paste it in, first paste it into a plain text editor such as Notepad, then copy it from Notepad and paste into your email textarea.) —
Richardguk (
talk) 18:17, 2 July 2010 (UTC)For the umpteenth time - this is not your personal computer help desk. This is for discussing technical issues regarding English Wikipedia. OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 13:03, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
I notice that https://secure.wikimedia.org/ throws an error about containing unencrypted content in Firefox (latest update). Can this be fixed? 76.117.247.55 ( talk) 05:00, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
When I enable the mwEmbed and Twinkle gadgets, videos (such as the one on today's featured article) don't load. Firefox's error console says:
Error: _this.moduleLoadQueue[moduleName] is undefined Source File: http://prototype.wikimedia.org/mwe-gadget/mwEmbed/ResourceLoader.php?class=mwEmbed,mw.style.mwCommon,mw.EmbedPlayer,mw.style.EmbedPlayer,$j.ui,mw.PlayerControlBuilder,$j.fn.hoverIntent,$j.ui.slider,mw.PlayerSkinKskin,mw.style.PlayerSkinKskin,$j.fn.menu,mw.style.jquerymenu,mw.TimedText,mw.style.TimedText,mw.SwarmTransport,mw.EmbedPlayerNative&uselang=en&urid=r136 Line: 55
Chrome says:
ControlBuilder,$j.fn.hoverIntent,$j.ui.slider,mw.PlayerSkinKskin,mw.style.PlayerSkinKskin,$j.fn.menu,mw.style.jquerymenu,mw.TimedText,mw.style.TimedText,mw.SwarmTransport&uselang=en&urid=r136:55Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'loaded' of undefined
Without Twinkle, mwEmbed works. -- Nx / talk 13:42, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
I noticed today that at
Crucifixion and
Crucifixion in the arts, the image file
File:Dionysus Crucifixion.gif displays as though the file has been deleted (a red link), as it does here, and yet the file does indeed still exist at Commons
commons:File:Dionysus Crucifixion.gif. I cannot find anything wrong with how the file name is entered on these pages. Am I missing something, or is there a bug? Thanks. --
Tryptofish (
talk) 19:01, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
In my post at the talk page of WikiProject Chemistry i tried to bring to notice an issue which in my view affects every WikiProject and is thus a serious bug. Please see the post for details. I hope someone has a solution. -- Siddhant ( talk) 20:41, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
I initially posted this at the Help Desk, although I kind of had it in the back of my head that I should post this here. When I search for certain items, it seems that the search bar brings up strange results. For instance, searching "Doctor Who (" turns the "(" into an "a" ( an example here in this segment of a screen cap) and a search for "Doctor Who h" turns the "h" into an ":" (i'm using Doctor Who examples because that's what I was indeed looking for when I discovered this). I get the bug with other searches (like, "Star Trek o") or when I search for a single word and a space (like "Star " turns "Starting Pitcher" into "Star ing Pitcher" and "Starbucks" into "Star ucks" and "Life " turns "Life Imprisonment" into "Lifebimprisonment"). In fact, I just noticed this now, but searching for "life" then two spaces turns the searches into "Lifebo+(rest of search result phrase beginning with "Life"), three spaces turns the search to "Lifeboa+(rest of search result phrase beginning with "Life"), eg "Lifeboaimprisonment", and so on until "Life+17 spaces" full reveals "Lifeboat (shipboard)" over the search results. I get the same thing if I search words like "time", "star", "rose" and "royal" and a bunch of spaces or any spaces (even sometimes one). Bizarre! Doc Strange Mailbox Logbook 16:42, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I have no problems reading pages, they look normal. But when I try to edit, the edit page opens normally but within a second changes to one in which the screen is almost completely taken up with the edit field. I can see the edit toolbars (wikiedit, etc), the edit summary field, and just under that the top half of the Save Page, Show Preview, etc. buttons (I can't even remember, should the 'content that violates copyright be above these as they are in the IE browser I'm using right now?). Nothing on the left or right side of the edit field at all, and no scroll bars. It suddenly happened a few minutes ago while I was using Chrome, and all other pages look normal, it's only when editing that I have the problem. Dougweller ( talk) 10:45, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
In my opinion the page headers provided by {{ template sandbox notice}} and {{ template test cases notice}} are very useful. Is there anyway that the information can be displayed on such pages system wide and without user intervention. If such a thing were to be implemented, maybe there should be a way to disable it in preferences as someone would probably object. Maybe not. – droll [chat] 08:04, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Strange, I have the option to
when looking at the block form for a named user? – xeno talk 23:34, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
The m:Template:Extension changes color depending on what an editor enters as the property of {{{switch}}}
Unfortunately, the parser instructions at m:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions are not very helpful.
So if I wanted to make a section of an infobox template appear or not appear dependent upon what the editor enters in, how would I do this?
Say I have this template:
{{Infobox |header1 = {{#switch: {{{{{found|}}}|Idaho={{{found}}}|}} }} | label1 = Location | data1 = {{#if:{{{found|}}}|{{{found}}} }} }}
I know this coding is incorrect....
How would I make it that, ONLY if {{{found}}} = Idaho then header1 will be visible? But if {{{found}}} is something else, it will not be visible?
Thank you so much in advance for your help, I am so confused and don't know where else to ask on wikipedia. God bless. Adamtheclown ( talk) 05:40, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Infobox |header1={{#ifeq:{{{found}}}|Idaho|{{{found}}}}} | label1 = Location | data1 = {{{found|}}} }}
Bawolff ( talk) 05:57, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Any time I try to view a page that does not exist on Wikipedia (a redlink), I have gotten this message. This just recently started happening. Anyone got answers? A p3rson ‽ 20:32, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
P.S.: Firefox 3.6.4, running on Vista Home Premium x64
Which license do wiki templates fall under? The wiki content license (Creative Commons) or the wiki software license (GPL2)? What about other sites that use MediaWiki? SharkD Talk 21:29, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Usually, external links are written in the way [http://www.google.com.ar/ Google], which produces Google. But what happens when there are brackets inside the URL, and the link gets broken? Is there an alternative way to link? MBelgrano ( talk) 02:21, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
I was looking something up on Hydrogen and noticed a bunch of redlinks in the periodic table in the top right. This turned out to be a failed link to Image:Transparent.gif - which is linked to by a plethora of pages. I then noticed I wasn't logged in, so I logged in. The file appeared. I logged out. The file redlinked.
Something isn't right here - I tried switching browsers to see if it was cookie-related, but the problem persists (newest Opera and IE7). The gif simply isn't there if you're not logged in.
I can imagine that some features and tools should only be presented to admins/bureaucrats/etc, so there's levels of things that are and aren't presented to different types of users. But why this applies to a utility image is beyond me - also why logged-out (ie IP) users not able to access some things that are accessible to logged-in users without any rights, except things like (semi)protection which are handled serverside. -- Firien need help? 09:37, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Is there any means of manipulating strings (e.g. chopping the first character)? I need something like this to manipulate a parameter. -- Redaktor ( talk) 14:24, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
{{
str crop}}
seems to be something along the lines of what you're looking for, only backwards. If there's no alternative you could try {{str_right|{{{1}}}|{{#expr:{{str_len|{{{1}}}}}-{{{2}}}}}}}
(which is that template with str_right
instead of str_left
). Bear in mind that all of these templates are expensive and somewhat capricious.
Intelligent
sock 14:39, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Pending changes seems to ignore this setting, adding &diffonly=0
to the URL. Is there any way to show only the diff to avoid the rather long rendering time when reviewing? (It seems that there should be a setting for this somewhere that furthermore should be independent from the other setting, and I still get the reviewing interface when deleting the &diffonly=0
part of the URL). I am not looking for CSS based fixes since they do not actually prevent rendering and reduce load time.
PleaseStand
(talk) 19:34, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
&diffonly=0
being added? If you want "diffonly", it should be &diffonly=1
.
Calvin 1998 (
t·
c) 22:21, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
&diffonly=0
at the end, which overrides the preference). There does not seem to be a preferences option to suppress the diffonly=0 or replace it with diffonly=1.
PleaseStand
(talk) 23:05, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, is CSS opacity still working? See Portal:Cornwall/Random banner/1, it's not working anymore, and there haven't been any changes to that page. If it is still working does anyone know how to fix it on that page? Many thanks, -- Joowwww ( talk) 22:10, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
style="/* insecure input */"
. It seems the CSS property filter
is considered insecure by MediaWiki and so the whole style is ignored. After I removed the filter
, it started working as it should in Firefox, but I think opacity
doesn't work in IE.
Svick (
talk) 23:26, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
I believe "page view statistics" is incorrect. Shouldn't it be "page-view statistics"? Kdammers ( talk) 01:40, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Kdammers ( talk) 10:39, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Did some sort of over-all structural change happen about 2 weeks ago that caused the Wikipedia to now take eons to open? (Maybe that is when I started to notice it...) When I Google a subject and then from the list provided, click on the Wikipedia link, it takes forever for the page to open - even when I am on Cable or high-speed wifi or on other computers. Sometimes I just open the link in a new window and set it off to the side to eventually load at its pleasure. Wikipedia used to be one of the fastest sites to load, and now it is markedly slower than any other site I access lately. I am just wondering why. Thanks Saudade7 18:46, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
importScriptURI(' http://wikisource.org/?title=MediaWiki:DynamicRC.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
I need to create links to several of the Thomas Eakins works in the collection of the De Young Museum. To see them, here, search for "Eakins." You will be presented with several paintings, and clicking on them brings you to the description pages I'd like to link to. However, the website does not use canonical URLs. Is it still possible to link to those pages? Raul654 ( talk) 05:29, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
http://gallery.famsf.org/gallery/artworkDetails.htm?record=61009&idx=3&galleryId=&searchType=advanced&keyword=Search By Keyword&exhibit=&country=¢ury=&gallery=&building=&barCode=Search By Bar Code&accessionNumber=Search By Accession#
, change this to just
http://gallery.famsf.org/gallery/artworkDetails.htm?record=61009
. The record number is all it needs to display the relevant picture and text, though the resulting page does not include all the menus so you probably ought to include a separate link to the relevant
section URL. Not very neat but it works.I've just learned that cite errors, such as the ones discussed here, are not shown to Internet Explorer 8 users. I see that the text is contained in the CSS class, "Error", and I presume that is the cause but does anyone know if this is an intended effect or a bug? AJ Cham 13:05, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
I would like to know what are the right robots.txt settings to put in my crawler to be able to download wikipedia from online following wikipedia policy. I will apreciate any information that could help me solve this issue. Here are some screen capture i took when i put the crawler to download wikipedia. http://www.ojoss.com/dumpd/
Thanks odelinespinosa@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.75.76.204 ( talk) 21:43, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
dumpd
is, but this error may be because it doesn't set the
User-Agent header. But, unless it's only very few pages, you shouldn't download pages from Wikipedia automatically. You should use the
API or
database dumps instead.
Svick (
talk) 22:17, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Stats only 5 days of July. Last stats July 6. Anybody know someone who can get this up? 69.237.157.250 ( talk) 01:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Can anyone more clueful that me work out why Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Administrator_abuse_on_Wikipedia isn't being archived by MathBot even though it's closed? I've seen malformed closes on AfDs resulting in MathBot being confused, but I can't see the problem on this one. It's causing the list at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Old to be stretched longer than it should be. It could be fixed by just commenting out the AfD on the 27 June page, but it'd be nice to fix it properly. Black Kite (t) (c) 21:47, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
If you type Ph.D into the Wikipedia search box in the Vector skin, the first two suggested matches are identical, "Ph.D".
If you try the same in Monobook, the second suggestion is "Ph D" with a space instead of a dot.
In Vector, the second suggestion - although it is "Ph.D" - actually links to Ph D. Chzz ► 01:35, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Forgive me if this is the wrong place; feel free to point me somewhere else.
If I disable images in my browser - Firefox 3.0.19, Windows XP, monobook - and look at a semi-protected page which is a 'Good article', the text This article is semi-protected to prevent violations of Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy. overlaps both the article title and the text This is a good article. Click here for more information. - I have uploaded a screenshot here. I'm using 1024x768.
Another user, on Firefox 3.6.6 on Ubuntu, using both Vector and Monobook, has the same effect; although at 1600 resolution it does not overlap the title part, but it does if they shrink the window.
A third user checked and saw the problem with Firefox 3.6.6 on Windows 7.
Again, apols if this is a known issue. Chzz ► 17:16, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
alt
parameter in the image wikicode, like |alt=Good article
. Not sure if anybody will be willing to do the change though. —
AlexSm 15:38, 13 July 2010 (UTC)An external website says that it can only present more organized information about a user's edits if the user opts in by creating a page EditCounterOptIn.js under the user page. When attempting to start that page, the heading says
and then
Is this cause for concern? Cephal-odd ( talk) 05:59, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Something is amiss with the Wikipedia system.
When I clicked on the link to a diff in the edit history of 2010 G-20 Toronto summit, the page which was displayed was the unrelated Residual-current device? A short while ago, I clicked on another link which produced an anomalous result, e.g.,
In other words, the page displayed on the monitor and the http:// at the top of the screen are mismatched?
If this this not the place to alert someone, what is the better venue?-- Tenmei ( talk) 18:49, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Yep, that'd be the problem. Diff links must refer to the correct diff ID number to work, and if you have the right ID the article name listed in the URL is rather irrelevant. -- erachima talk 20:57, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
{{ ISBN}} uses Special:BookSources to give a listing of various search engines and libraries for books. {{ coord}} runs ~geohack on the toolserver which does the same for geomapping. Do we have an equivalent facility for text search? Something that lists general search engines and even better, specialized ones too, with a preloaded query? Franamax ( talk) 23:13, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Can someone who understands templates, and maybe even nesting of templates, and the best way to do things help us add a field to opt out of italic titles? Thanks. If this request should go somewhere else, please say so. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) 03:57, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
{{ Autopatrolled}} and {{ Reviewer_topicon}}, these two templates are transcluded in my userpage. When I open my userpage, sometimes the topicons seem like this: File:Mybug 02.png (the left light blue bar is the vertical scroll bar; I am using Mozilla Firefox) and sometimes like this one: File:Mybug 01.png. I have also applied it to other pages (ie my userspace and User:Alexanderps), but i have got the same result. Is there anyone having the same problem? How can I fix this problem? -- Amit6 ( talk) 11:08, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Referring to this question, I discovered that with Internet Explorer 8 I can stay signed in if I delete my history without "Cookies" checked. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:45, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
The user preferences panel gives an option to exclude bot edits from your watchlist, which is all well and good. However, is it possible to somehow exclude specific users from your watchlist instead? (I would ignore the archival bots and signpost distributor, specifically.) Ignoring all bots is not acceptable to me because I often have images watchlisted which I did not upload, and therefore would not receive the deletion notices for, but which I would not see bot deletion tagging for if I excluded all bots from my watchlist. Thanks. -- erachima talk 20:57, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
I don't know if it's just me, but I can't compare revisions from a page history at the moment. I get the error messge You have either not specified a target revision(s) to perform this function, the specified revision does not exist, or you are attempting to hide the current revision.. It may just be coincidence, but I've just had the admin bit restored to my account [7] - maybe this has screwed something up. Any thoughts? (For info, I'm in classic skin running on IE6) — Tivedshambo ( t/ c) 12:51, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
importScript('User:Superm401/Compare_link.js'); // turn "compare selected revisions" into a copyable link
Since auto update to Firefox 7.0.1 (been a while), whenever I try to 'Compare Selected Revisions', my system doesn't know what to do with the return index.php, and asks whether to save it or select the program to open it. I suspected was Firefox, but checking on IE 8.0.6001.18702 returning same error. I'm running on XP - Service Pack 3.
Not a show stopper, but quite frustrating. Any suggestions for settings / installations gratefully received.
Best wishes Haruth ( talk) 20:50, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Discussion about the recent interface changes are at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change. Please comment there to keep discussion in one place. |
My employer's IT recently updated our browsers from IE6 to IE7 (yeah, a 'lil behind the times), but in doing so, most of my gadgets no longer work, especially popups, HotCat, and the RefToolbar. Since I've never had an issue with this on my home computer on IE7 or IE8, I'm guessing it must be that some of the settings may have changed, but I'm not sure which options to begin fiddling with. Both computers use Windows XP. Any idea where to start, like security and javascript? bahamut0013 words deeds 17:19, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
http://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1luPp50mVg6d1CXAs_Qrdn7f6eJZmAO5tBT2roVyL1o0&hl=en http://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1vce2qdjCVVaEEN7ODssSBRjLU1DR0Cew_DkrdJaUESQ&hl=en
Can we use a content based search engine for document search in Wikipedia. The above link will guide you through a mathematical search engine, which uses a Principle Component Analysis to provide most appropriate results. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Prashant.prashn ( talk • contribs) 03:56, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
For the past few days, some message has been appearing for a tenth of a second at the top of my watchlist, maybe twice a day. It's not in the page source. I'm still using monobook, so my wild guess is that they're trying to sell me on vector ... anyone know? Anyone know a url where I can see the message? - Dank ( push to talk) 15:43, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Where exactly do I go to create a user subpage?-- Woogie10w ( talk) 20:45, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
If mediawiki:common.css has coding such as this for a class:
table.bigbox{ border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; }
...and I create this template:
{{bigbox | image = {{{image|}}} | headerstyle = background-color:#FFFFFF | data1 = {{{helpmeplease|}} }}
And with the "data1/helpmeplease" parameter I don't want:
What type of coding can I use to make sure there is no border?
I tried style formatting and nothing worked.
I hope I wrote this clearly, thank you so much in advance for your help! Adamtheclown ( talk) 20:12, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Example | |
---|---|
This is an infobox without border. |
{{
infobox}}
or {{
navbox}}
)? I'm afraid there is no single solution, but most of those meta-templates should provide a parameter to override the style. For example, in the case of {{infobox}}
, you can use this code (the result is in on the right):{{Infobox | bodystyle = border: none; | above = Example | data1 = This is an infobox without border. }}
I would like to make a diagram listing size ranges for Miniopterus bats from the data at List of bats of Madagascar#Family Miniopteridae. This would look similar to File:Subfossil lemur C14 ranges.svg. Is there a way to do this on-Wiki, using some intricate kind of formatting or the EasyTimeline extension, or do I need to create an image? Ucucha 16:19, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
<timeline>
for other purposes, so I would suggest creating an image.
SVG is probably the best format, because it's scalable and can be relatively easily edited.
Svick (
talk) 16:31, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
HOW ON EARTH do I publish my edited page?!? Or make the page "go live"? I cannot find this topic in ANY help sections, ANYWHERE. I've been looking for hours. It must just be ridiculously simple, obvious, and right in front of my face. I just want to move it from my userspace to become an actual Wikipedia article. This is very frustrating. Please help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by SportsScienes ( talk • contribs) 16:53, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Are there publicly available stats on the popularity of the various skins among Wikipedians? If so, where are they? I imagine those figures could be quite interesting in light of the recent Vector implementation. Thanks for the help. — Anonymous Dissident Talk 03:35, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
I've written a tool in vb.net 2.0 that allows automatic/assisted {{ cite news}} citations with the following websites:
The tool and its source are available at sourceforge. If you find it useful/worthwhile, please leave a note and I'll consider further development...Enjoy. Smallman12q ( talk) 23:39, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
The {{ citation needed}} template is causing the paragraph following the one to which it is attached to run together. The bug is only evident when the second paragraph begins with a wikilink. For instance,
Poodles make great bacon sandwiches. citation needed
Animal cruelty should not be allowed on Wikipedia.
works fine. But,
Poodles make great bacon sandwiches. citation needed
Animal cruelty should not be allowed on Wikipedia.
results in the two lines being run together. This is not happening here on this page: it appears to only be a problem in the main namespace, which is very odd, but it is easily verified by pasting the above text in to an article and viewing it in preview. I have tried this in IE6, Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 - all with the same result.
I have no idea how to fix this. SpinningSpark 14:03, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Per the above-linked bugzilla, and this discussion, this preference will likely be removed shortly (as users often set it and forget it, causing non-minor edits to be marked minor).
The preference will be reset to the default; those who used previously this preference could probably use a script to restore the functionality, if desired. – xeno talk 21:30, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
if(wgAction == 'edit') {
addOnloadHook(function minorEdit() {
document.getElementById('wpMinoredit').checked = true;
});
}
Here's something better. It remembers your last minor edit setting in a cookie. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 08:20, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
if(wgAction == 'edit') {
addOnloadHook(function minorEdit() {
addHandler(document.getElementById('wpMinoredit'), 'change', minorEdit_change);
if (document.cookie.indexOf("minorEdit=true")!=-1) {document.getElementById('wpMinoredit').checked = true };
} )
}
function minorEdit_change() {
var e = new Date();
e.setTime( e.getTime() + (24*60*60*1000) ); // one day
document.cookie = 'minorEdit='+document.getElementById('wpMinoredit').checked+';expires=' + e.toGMTString();
}
The above script sets future edits to the same setting as your most recent edit. It does this for one day before reverting to marking all edits to major edits. I don't see the purpose of this script and it seems extremely error prone to me, as there is no true default in this case and the "default" that is set expires without warning. I recommend against its use. Bigmantonyd ( talk) 23:35, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
if(wgAction == 'edit') {
addOnloadHook(function minorEdit() {
document.getElementById('wpMinoredit').checked = true;
}
)}
I don't like this. The choice was made, by me, to set my edits as default. This choice was made by me. This choice is something I stand by. This choice should be respected. I do not like the notion that my edits will have to be manually set to minor while this is my default behavior. I am appalled by this move. Maki ( talk) 20:33, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
I also think this is absurd. Maybe someone could convert one of these experimental scripts into a simple checkbox on my Editor Preferences that would let me toggle the minordefault
value. Perhaps just unhide the one that is still there. A different repair would be to just set the value in my user record back to true and forget about either the script or checkbox. Anyway -- I've used the 1st (3rd) script in Vector skin's "Custom JavaScript" . --
LantzR (
talk) 08:48, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I am currently assisting a non-technical user who is stuck with having every edit marked as minor with no way to turn it off. That hidden box needs to be turned off for all users by a 'bot. Giving the users a way to turn it back on would seem to be a Good Thing for users such as Makitk above who appear to know what they are doing, but the hidden box needs to be unchecked for users who don't do something special to keep it turned on. I am sure that there are many other users who, like mine, have been spending years inadvertently marking all edits - including major changes - as minor without really knowing what a minor edit is or why their is an m next the every edit. There is a larger issue as well: when a user interface option is hidden, careful thought needs to be given to the users who now have an unchangeable user preference. Guy Macon ( talk) 15:04, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I tried to use the syntax highlighting code "<syntaxhighight lang="rsplus"></syntaxhighight> (for the R programming language, but it appears that rsplus is not supported in wikipedia. Can anyone confirm that "rsplus" doesn't work or let me know if there is a bug listed for GeSHi to update the languages on wikipedia? Thanks. Protonk ( talk) 01:50, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
I get the same behavior you do - the docs say rsplus is supported, but trying to use it gives an error message that doesn't list it as one of the supported options. I can't find a bug report for this, so I'd go ahead and make a new one if I were you. — Gavia immer ( talk) 02:23, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
I create new Template:Location map2 with ideas from de, ru, fr and uk wiki. This template works also with location map templates with y, x parameters, for example: Template:Location map China1, Template:Location map Canada1, Template:Location map Russia1, Template:Location map Africa1. May be it need to include code of Template:Location map2 to Template:Location map?-- Амба ( talk) 21:17, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey all, recently we redesigned the header for Wikipedia:Reference desk pages and added another search box for the whole of wikipedia in case people miss the one at the top. These are put side by side, see for example Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing. Problem with this is it increases the minimum horizontal resolution for the header to above 800 pixels.
While I left a suggestion on the talk page, no one has yet came up with what would seem to me to be the obvious solution, make them gracefully switch from being side to side to one below the other as necessary. Does anyone know if this is possible and if so, how to do it?
Nil Einne ( talk) 06:33, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Normally, if I click on a Wikipedia image, it takes me to the description page for that image. Recently, I haven't been able to click on any image at all. I'm still using the MonoBook skin, in IE8. -- S-man ( talk) 19:06, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
I have been experimenting with the use of a sub-template to create references to an external site which uses structured URLs, created by an existing template {{ London Gazette}}.
My intention was that the parameters in my new template which creates the row in the data table would include three for the reference: {{{issue}}}
, {{{date}}}
and {{{page}}}
. Those three parameters would be used by the row-building template to call a sub-template which would create a named reference for one of the columns, as follows: <ref name="{{{issue}}-{{{date}}}-{{{page}}}">{{London Gazette |issue = {{{issue}}} | startpage = {{{page}}} | date={{{date}}} }}</ref>
That would give me properly formatted references, with names which allow cite.php to merge refs to the same page
In my tests I have incorporated error-checking to ensure that all parameters are present, and have successfully passed all the parameters. {{
London Gazette}} is called ... but all the parameters in <ref name="{{{issue}}-{{{date}}}-{{{page}}}">{{London Gazette |issue = {{{issue}}} | startpage = {{{page}}} | date={{{date}}} }}</ref>
are empty.
To demonstrate this, I have set up a simple test at User:BrownHairedGirl/sandbox, in which the template {{User:BrownHairedGirl/myref]]}} is passed a one-word parameter. As you can see the parameter has a null value both in creating the reference name and in creating the text of the ref.
Is this a known bug, and is there any workaround?
It may sound like an esoteric issue, but in this case it would make it much easier to create and maintain a long series of references, particularly since each reference will be shared by an average of about 30 entries. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:41, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
{{#tag:ref}}
in place of <ref name="etc.">content</ref>
seems to fix it.
Intelligent
sock 15:13, 18 July 2010 (UTC){{#tag:ref}}
, but that fixes it all. --
BrownHairedGirl
(talk) • (
contribs) 11:37, 19 July 2010 (UTC)If the "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" feature is enabled in preferences and an edit summary is not entered, it prevents non-autoconfirmed users from saving edits which trigger the captcha. The edit window gets locked into a cycle of entering the captcha, being informed you didn't enter an edit summary and clicking continue to save without one, and being asked for a captcha again. Obviously this is easy to overcome by disabling the feature in preferences or entering an edit summary, but new users may be unaware of what they are doing wrong, and may assume the captcha is the problem 1230049-0012394-C ( talk) 16:29, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
This appeared while viewing User talk:White Shadows. I'm running The latest Firefox on Mac OS X 10.6.3. ~ NerdyScienceDude ( ✉ • ✐ • ✍) 18:15, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello. However it is that we are able to display articles such as iPhone with a leading lowercase letter, could someone please do that to Inext? - Richard Cavell ( talk) 14:41, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
{{
Lower case title}}
to make it look like it starts with a lower-case letter.
OrangeDog (
τ •
ε) 12:04, 20 July 2010 (UTC)Is this script still working for other people? All I get is the "You have not edited this page! (recently)" message (even when I have). I'm still using the monobook skin.-- Dodo bird ( talk) 23:32, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Is it possible to write a script (or is there one already?) that will check which skin and browser you're using and show them a different version of the page based on that? I'm currently talking about the problems at HJ Mitchell's userpage with the English flag at top. It won't look right in Vector when it look right in MonoBook and looks bad in MonoBook when it looks good in Vector. I know that there are scripts that you can add to your monobook.js or vector.js. Mr. R00t Talk 16:49, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
I know that. I need to be able to be able to access whatever program it uses and put it on a page. I'm hoping that it will work similar to {{REVISIONUSER}}. Mr. R00t Talk 18:19, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Is there any desription to AWB library - wikifunctions.dll? Besuglov.S cont / talk 16:34, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Are you familiar with the function of exporting from OpenOffice to MediaWiki? See Wikipedia talk:Tools#Exporting from OpenOffice.
Thank you. -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 21:27, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I've been around a few years and have a bloated watchlist (about 12,361 entries). I'd guess that many hundreds of them are redirects that were created automatically when pages were moved. When I sit down to delete some entries from the list I get discouraged at the thought of checking all of those to find the redirects. Does anyone know of a way to determine which articles are redirects automatically? Perhaps starting with pasting the watchlist into a page? Or using some tool? (This was inspired by trying out Huggle and finding it timing out when checking my watchlist, though I found a work-around for that). Will Beback talk 07:43, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
.watchlistredir { font-style:italic; }
to your personal css file. This will display redirects in italics. —
Tivedshambo (
t/
c) 07:58, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Or, use Anomie's link classifier script:
importScript('User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js'); // Linkback: [[User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js]]
importStylesheet('User:Anomie/linkclassifier.css'); // Linkback: [[User:Anomie/linkclassifier.css]]
The follow the instructions at the top of that page to bypass the cache.
See User:Anomie/linkclassifier.css for a list of the other link colors. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 17:51, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this belongs here, and I ask to be excused if it does not. I noticed something odd that is there when I open anyone's contributions page.
(latest | earliest) View (newer 250 | older 250) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
There are two spaces (an extra space) between "newer 250" and the vertical bar. This applies always, no matter whose contributions I'm seeing, no matter how many edits I've chosen to view, and no matter whether I'm logged in or not. Why is it so? -- Theurgist ( talk) 07:05, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
The MOS:FULLSTOP guideline says: "The number of spaces following the terminal punctuation of a sentence in the wiki markup makes no difference on Wikipedia because the MediaWiki software condenses any number of spaces to just one when rendering the page." Is that true regardless of what browser the reader is using? Long previous discussion here. Art LaPella ( talk) 05:52, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Why do images on wikimedia have option to annotate images but on wikipedia they do not? Kallimachus ( talk) 01:14, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
There's way too much separation between Wiki projects. I want to have a transwiki watchlist where I can keep an eye on Wikipedia Pages in various languages as well as files I keep an eye on in the commons and entries I've contributed to in the dictionary. It's way too much of a pain to keep an eye on everything, so certain things go unwatched or unresponded to.
Am I the first one to bring this up? Don't many of you have the same complaint/problem? Chrisrus ( talk) 05:40, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
I've been away for a while. Today I return to make an edit and found the edit summary hidden away(on a mobile device) to the right of the page. if I wasn't really aware from before that edit summaries are desirable I would not of even realised entering an edit summary was possible now. Where did the discussion happen on moving it's position? What where people thinking? Is entering an edit summary something no longer desirable? Don't we want newbies especially to enter edit summaries as much as they can? Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 10:09, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
For some reason this coding does not work:
{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|Template||'''[[New York City]]'''}}
I want to create a condition, that:
If a the namespace IS a template, '''[[New York City]]''' will NOT be shown.
If the namespace is NOT a template, '''[[New York City]]''' WILL be shown.
Any suggestions? Can I use magicwords this way? If not, is there another way to do this? Thank you for your time. Adamtheclown ( talk) 14:27, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right place...but how do you cite/reference an annotation? Smallman12q ( talk) 16:03, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
{{#tag:ref|On page viii of ''The Caldecott Aesop: Twenty Fables : A Facsimile of the 1883 Edition'', a production note states that the "majority of color plates were made from the first woodblock renderings of Caldecott's work." The statement is not sufficiently clear to indicate to what extant the original blocks were used, however the cracks in the color plates suggest that the original blocks may in fact have been used.{{#tag:ref|Richardson, p. 33}}|group="a"}} This worked =). Smallman12q ( talk) 17:46, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Shouldn't each article link to its
DBPedia equivalent? Either at the end of the interwiki links, and/ or through a meta header: <link rel="alternate" href="http://dbpedia.org/page/Birmingham">
for
Birmingham, for example?
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 16:30, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
User:guillom of the Wikimedia Multimedia Usability team has published some results on his blog of the first testing done of the usability of Wikimedia Commons upload process, and the results of the first prototype for the new upload wizard that is currently under development. See also the following movies:
Please contribute your ideas, and you can test the prototype if you want. I note that some of the results might apply to other processes as well. The "i'll just skip all this, because it is too much text" being the most notable usability issue that will likely apply to many other pages. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 20:08, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
I was looking at a very long article, but if I went back to it the computer would have to scroll down to get back to what I was reading. However, it didn't do that. It jumped forward to an article whose link I clicked on earlier while looking at the very long article, and the back button was no longer blue, meaning it couldn't be used.
I've asked similar questions before but no one seems to have an answer for this. Sometimes with very long articles or emails the back button won't go back to them, or the forward button won't go back to them. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:11, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
And it just happened again. I used the back button several times and it wouldn't go forward again because THIS page is so long. I should also add I have IE8 and Vista. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:13, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm seeing the forward button turn gray instead of black when the computer scrolls down in a long article or other type of page. It doesn't usually happen in a short article. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:58, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm sure I mentioned Deepwater Horizon oil spill. I planned to reproduce the sequence of events on the computing reference desk (people were responding more here), but I never got around to it. I can't today because there's not enough time. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 13:14, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
The __NOINDEX__ and {{noindex}} directives aren't that well-known or well documented.
I was creating subpages under User:Geo Swan for years before I became aware of them.
__NOINDEX__ directive and robots.txt seem to work differently. A robots.txt, with the appropriate contents, tells well-behaved web-crawling robots, like those that search engines use to find contents, will honor the robots from indexing the files in that directory, and all subdirectories -- while the __NOINDEX__ directive only applies to the article on which it has been placed.
I wonder, since, to a web-browser's robots, the subpages of User pages are just files and directories, couldn't a properly drafted robots.txt eliminate the need to put the __NOINDEX__ directive on all our subpages?
If a file has already been hidden from web-browsers, then a {{ userspace draft}} would be redundant, and unnecessary, wouldn't it?
Thanks! Geo Swan ( talk) 23:21, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
I noticed a minor fault in how (presumably) MediaWiki renders a page, and will describe it in case anyone wants to follow up. The events took place at WT:Requests for comment/Jagged 85#Cleaning up the problem:
Conclusion: the <p> caused MediaWiki to misrender two paragraphs below. Johnuniq ( talk) 00:08, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
<p>
element contains the indented text, which is parsed according to its own wikitext rules, then the paragraph tag is implicitly closed by
HTML Tidy at the next section heading. HTML
tag soup does not mix well with wikitext porridge. In fact wikitext porridge does not always mix well with wikitext porridge. It's a quirky syntax at the best of times. —
Richardguk (
talk) 00:36, 23 July 2010 (UTC)<p>
element addled things such that when JohnV added another implied paragraph (i.e. blank line), MedaiWiki got confused; it failed to parse Johnuniq's && JohnV's posts such that it generated two paragraph; it goofed, and wrapped them in just one; JohnV's blank line being reduced to a mere space. MediaWiki got it wrong, here, and the improperly formed embedded <p> was what triggered the mis-generation of served-code.Template:ref label wraps its content in a span, rather than a div. This causes problems when the background color is set, because if the line spacing is wide enough then the underlying background color seeps through the cracks. There is a thread about this on the template talk page.
The CSS that is set in Common.css [10] refers directly to the span tag, not just the .citation class name. I have not looked up the javascript that takes care of changing the background color.
I don't know enough about our CSS/javascript setup to try to fix this problem. If someone with the knowledge has time to fix it, it would be appreciated. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 00:56, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
citation
, so I suspect it is something to do with that class. Compare to this link.
[1]References
reference
. The reference list is an ordered list inside a div, whereas the template uses a span. I think you are going to have to convert it to use a div. If you get it working, the same fix should be applied to other reference templates. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk 03:38, 23 July 2010 (UTC)When I make changes to an article, I click on Show preview to see my changes. If I put in a Wiki link, for example, I can click on the link in the preview and make sure it works. However, if I make a citation change and click on the superscript citation, I can't see how the citation resolves. Thus, I have to Save page, check the resolved citation, and if I screwed up, go back in and fix it. Is there a way to do what I want without saving the page (short of using a sandbox)?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 01:14, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Add this to Special:MyPage/skin.js and purge the page per the instructions at the top of the page:
importScript('User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js'); // Linkback: [[User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js]]
At the bottom of the edit window, you will find a button marked Ajax Preview w/Refs. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 02:02, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
<references />
Thanks very much for the suggestions.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 22:55, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
A recurring problem that makes WP look amateurish is the main page spacing. On the right is a story about Kosovo but there is a picture of a man that looks (pardon my ignorance) like he might be from south India. If the pictures can be lined up, this would be better. Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 22:11, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
For a number of months now, a nontechnical Wikipedia editor named Vchimpanzee has occasionally reported problems to the Computing Reference Desk involving a disappearing forward-history in IE8. ( Here is his most recent thread, a lengthy attempt to be meticulous in his bug report.) I just reproduced the problem on my machine under IE8 but am having trouble reproducing the problem reliably. My one repro case was that I edited WP:SANDBOX, clicked Link A, then clicked Link B, then pressed Alt-left-arrow on the keyboard, which took me to Link A as expected, but the browser's "Forward" button turned from blue to gray, indicating the forward-history had been lost. Then, the Back command brought me, surprisingly, to Link B.
Is it possible that some feature of Wikipedia's use of AJAX is interfering with the alt-left-arrow or alt-right-arrow keyboard shortcuts of IE8? Without a good repro case that is my first guess at the source of the issue. Comet Tuttle ( talk) 21:15, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
I am having a unique problem with dialogs in Apple Safari 5, Google Chrome, and Opera 10 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (does not occur in FF4). The best way to explain it is with the image above. Any ideas to fix this? — mono 01:28, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
I've noticed a tendency towards people using https://secure.wikimedia.org/... (the secure server) when giving diffs. I suppose I can understand that for highly-sensitive abuse issues, but is there is any reason for it on general noticeboards like WP:WQA and WP:RSN? I understand the possibility of man-in-the-middle attacks and so forth, but that seems highly unlikely, so I'm curious whether there is a technical reason for using secure diffs. Johnuniq ( talk) 01:39, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
importScript('user:js/urldecoder.js') // decodes external links to be internal
I found a glitch with the script today...when using search (with the old monobook style)...if you do a transwiki search such as "commons:main" you will be taken to the unsecure version of the commons main page. Smallman12q ( talk) 01:29, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering is there a smart way to filter a page's revision history to see all my edits to the page? Thanks Rjwilmsi 09:12, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
I want a code that disables some images in a page, but enable others when written on my_user_page/monobook.css. The code body.page-Muhammad img {display: none;} makes all images disappear. I want to write a guide to disable only some images in the page for religious people. Dbachmann advised to ask any of your mates on how to install the Adblock Extension, but I am planning to write a simple guide without using a program outside Wikipedia by just changing the code body.page-Muhammad img {display: none;} that is used in the guide to disable viewing pictures in Muhammad page. This is my user page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kavas. For this experiment, I have added 4 pictures, 2 of them are OK and 2 of them are bad for religious people. I want to disable the first and the fourth images on this page but enable the second and the third images at the same time with a simple code on User:Kavas/monobook.css. Is it possible? I have to say that this is not a censorment, because today users can change monobook.css by following a guide to disable viewing all images in a page, but I want to change the guide to filter only specific images. The aim is to write a guide to disable specific images in Muhammad page by changing someone's monobook.css. Kavas ( talk) 15:31, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
body.page-Muhammad ahref="/wiki/File:Aziz_efendi-muhammad_alayhi_s-salam.jpg" img,
body.page-Muhammad ahref="/wiki/File:Siyer-i_Nebi_151b.jpg" img {
display: none;
}
body.page-Muhammad img {
display: none;
}
body.page-Muhammad ahref="/wiki/File:Aziz_efendi-muhammad_alayhi_s-salam.jpg" img,
body.page-Muhammad ahref="/wiki/File:Siyer-i_Nebi_151b.jpg" img {
display: block;
}
Hi. Template:Sørlandsbanen includes 613 Template:BS, which itself contains one ifexist. The result in the parser count is: “Expensive parser function count: 613/500”. Could someone optimize it? By the way, State highways in New Jersey is in a similar case. Thanks. Dodoïste ( talk) 23:19, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
That latest change disabled my Firefox (3.6.8) browser (using Windows 7) from choosing the font I have specified for IPA in my own user:Mahmudmasri/vector.css. I need help. The latest change made it only possible for my browser to choose my specified font if there were texts written as {{IPA|/tekst/}} only after I wrote that: span[class|=IPA] rather than .IPA, but I still have a problem: all the IPA wikitables such as Help:IPA conventions for English#Vowels don't choose my specified font for IPA. TheDJ told me, “span.IPA or adding !important before the ; should work as well. Because the CSS is now added by Javascript, it is higher in importance than things in your skin css.” I tried what he told me by many ways, but failed. I need help. -- Mahmudmasri ( talk) 03:11, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
body .IPA
for instance. Problem solved. —
TheDJ (
talk •
contribs) 15:51, 26 July 2010 (UTC)What's going on with the Toolserver? I just clicked a recently-added {{ coord}} template and received a HTTP 404 Not Found error; thinking that it was perhaps bad coords, I went to http://www.toolserver.org, only to get an identical result there. I'm running IE 8.0.6001.18928, although I doubt that causes any problems. I've tried refreshing, but the same result comes up; however, other websites aren't giving me any problems at all. Nyttend ( talk) 15:50, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
I'd love to hear an explanation of this. This "secret" page was just exploited by a vandal. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:05, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Query: can one force a TOC entry from inside a table? if so, how? Д-р СДжП,ДС 21:56, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
==
is only recognized at the beginning of a line, thus you must have a newline between the row markup and the header markup:| ====Header===
Proposal: For anonymous users extend the user identifier (IP address) with a browser cookie. E.g. "1.1.1.1/12345".
Reason: Can help discriminating between good faith contributors and vandals operating from the shared IP address. Currently it is difficult / almost impossible to determine which particular user is editing from the shared IP address. This task is difficult even for humans, but automatic vandalism detection tools are particularly affected. Banning these shared IP contributors or forcing these users to register is ineffective and contradictory to the 'anyone can edit' principle. On the other hand adding a browser cookie to the anonymous user identifier (IP address) is fairly simple and potentially may resolve shared IP problem.
Comments? -- Dc987 ( talk) 03:00, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
As a checkuser, I would prefer not to see this implemented. It would be best for me to not say why. -- Deskana (talk) 16:13, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
I have previously proposed this at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 60#Effectively warning school IPs in a slightly different form. Essentially, the cookie would be temporary (1 hour expiry) and only used for the purpose of user warnings. The user talk pages themselves (including name) would be the same, and a user would still be warned if he clears his cookies (to the extent that the current system works). Comments? PleaseStand (talk) 00:49, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm looking for some advice on the technical viability of a list which is most clearly structured as a large (648-row) 7-column sortable table.
It's a list of the Members of Parliament elected at the United Kingdom general election, 1832. Other similar lists in this series have been implemented as a table split into sub-sections (by initial letter of the constituency name), for example in List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1857. This works well enough if the constituency name is known in advance, but for other uses (such as looking for MPs returned for Welsh boroughs), it's not much good, because the sectional structure prevents it from being sorted on other attributes.
So when I was preparing the data for 1832, I kept other data fields as I started building the list, and have now produced a draft with about 45% of the MPs listed: see User:BrownHairedGirl/1832 MPs with gazette. I'm quite pleased with how it works from a reader's POV: the all-one-table sortable columns work well, and I do like having each constituency explicitly referenced to the the authoritative source, the London Gazette.
However, I do wonder whether it's just too big. :(
The markup of 648 references to 32 footnotes and 648 sort-keyed entries is obviously fairly bulky, but the gzipped page is so far only only 44kB, which doesn't seem excessive in terms of download bandwidth, although the rendering of that much markup is probably fairy resource-intensive. The HTML served up the server is currently about 540kB uncompressed, and when the list is complete it will probably be about 750kB.
However, my concerns arise from editing the table. My PC has lots of RAM, but it still seems unhappy about editing the section with the list: after the edit box appears, it takes about a minute of processing before it's ready to allow me to start editing the box. Fine after that, but the delay is significant; my 4GB 1.3Gz laptop is far from cutting edge, but it's no fossil, and I can imagine older PCs struggling very badly. The contents of the editbox are currently about 210Kb, and once complete will be about 300Kb; that's big.
When I save changes, there is a lot of template processing to be done, and it takes a minute or two for the rendered page to be displayed. That's not a problem for me, and it's server issue which won't become more acute with older client PCs.
So, is this big table a step too far? And if so, how should I resolve the problem?
I'm very reluctant to go back to the static segmented table as used in the List of MPs in 1857.
The first option I tried was stripping out the gazette references, at User:BrownHairedGirl/1832 MPs no gazette. That reduces the editbox size by about 50Kb, which probably is not enough to make a great difference.
So I have been wondering about splitting the list into sub-pages, of the form User:BrownHairedGirl/1832 MPs with gazette/A, User:BrownHairedGirl/1832 MPs with gazette/B etc, and then transcluding the subpages into the main page. That will certainly resolve the problems with editing ... but am I right to think that apart from the problems caused by stuffing 200kB into the editbox, the other points are all manageable?
(Sorry if I have missed some relevant guideline. I have checked Help:Table, WP:TABLE and WP:LIST, but can't find anything which addresses this issue). -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 15:01, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
subst
or for whole blocks of text via
Special:ExpandTemplates) and possibly manually simplifying the resulting wikitext.On the off-chance that anyone is interested, this is just a quick note to say that I have completed the list and moved it to mainpsace at List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1832. I think that by splitting up the list into sub-sections and slightly reducing the number of template calls, it all works acceptably, apart from taking a long time to save changes to the main list. I have left a few notes on the technical issues at the list's talk page. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:12, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Something that annoys me is the two hyphens standing before the signature when I press the signature button to sign my edit:--~~~~ Is there any way to remove this, because it annoys me to remove them every time I sign my edits. MichaelJackson231 ( talk) 08:24, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Let's say Example page does not exist. An IP user cannot create Example page. They can create Talk:Example page. New page patrollers have a blind side to talk page creation on the assumption the article page exists, and once created, nobody is watching it. Or worse, the talk page becomes a fake article written by some banned user, and a new page patroller helps them out by moving it from talk to article space.
So, is it a Wikimedia feature to not allow talk page creation when the article doesn't exist? Should it be? SchmuckyTheCat ( talk) 20:33, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Looks like changing a few words in the middle of the first sentence of a paragraph causes the software to think that it's a different paragraph.
See [11]. The first paragraph should be side-to-side with the new first paragraph, since only 3 or 4 words have. The following five paragraphs are pushed down even if they didn't change at all.
I'm seriously considering printing the diff so I can highlight it with a red pen. -- Enric Naval ( talk) 13:03, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
<references></references>
or {{reflist|refs=}}
you can place all citations in the references section instead of in the middle of the prose. That makes it easier to distinguish, as in cases such as this, between changes to citation template use and changes to prose. (There are a couple of prose changes in there that the changes to the templates are obscuring.) It also makes the prose easier to read in the raw wikitext. (It can be made to closely resemble Harvard style in the raw wikitext.)
Uncle G (
talk) 13:38, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
I made a couple of minor edits [12] to this template and now it won't display correctly... any idea what's going on? I'm obviously missing something very simple!-- Pondle ( talk) 16:50, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I've googled and searched Wikipedia for info on this but it doesn't seem possible. Basically i just want to organise my fast growing watchlist into categories for easy reference. I've tried editing the raw watchlist to change the wording, but that seems to change links and it a bit of a faff anyway. Is there really no way to add pages to categories, in the same way as adding a bookmark to your browser and deciding which section to put it in? Any help much appreciated and apologies in advance if i've been thick and missed something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richyratton ( talk • contribs) 10:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks Richard - still seems a bit complicated, but then I don't really understand how wikipedia links - for instance, i was looking for a 'reply' button to get back to you on this, but it seems i have to edit the whole thing? Is there some techy reason in the coding why browser style bookmarking can't be implemented? kind regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richyratton ( talk • contribs) 13:06, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks everyone, have suggested it at village pump for proposals. -- Richyratton ( talk) 10:45, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Sometime before January 21, 2010, the US State Department changed its website address from usinfo.state.gov to america.gov without providing any sort of redirection for existing links. That change broke all citations to usinfo.state.gov. They are still broken.
The situation was reported at EAR here. An EAR editor confirmed the problem and reported it to WikiProject United States Government here. Trying to follow a citation today, I discovered it still exists.
A Linksummary shows ~769 links to usinfo.state.gov, all of them broken. Clicking on any returns server not found.
I don't have any bright ideas, but I think this should be addressed. I'll volunteer to fix a couple of dozen (it's not a one-for-one fix, things have moved around) if a project is set up. Interestingly, we have more of these now than we did in January. -- CliffC ( talk) 21:22, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
http://usinfo.state.gov/ei/Archive/2005/Jul/25-988565.html http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2005/July/20050722112754ndyblehs0.3616144.html
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=september&x=20060914165844ndyblehs0.0821802 http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2006/September/20060914165844ndyblehs0.0821802.html
"
http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/Archive_Index/Taiwan_Relations_Act.html Taiwan Relations Act: Public Law 96-8 96th Congress] Sec. 4 under APPLICATION OF LAWS; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS"
, Googling site:america.gov for "taiwan relations act" gets 44 hits, but adding the "96-8" from our title gets zero.
http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/Archive/2005/Apr/11-390328.html "What is Earth Day?"
, but it would take someone familiar with the article to pick the right target from the 631 hits at the site.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0701/ijdf/frjacsdb.htm US Info
– zero Google hits for "Comparative juvenile criminal law", 27 for "juvenile criminal law".Here are two links found at random that are quite similar:
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=August&x=20060809124617nainawhdaw0.8614466 http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2006/August/20060809124617nainawhdaw0.8614466.html
-- CliffC ( talk) 00:34, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, if one edits say Help talk:Moving a page, you get two editnotices saying the same thing ( Template:Editnotices/Namespace/Help talk ), I started to look into it but then noticed a sign saying 'caution technical: your head might explode!' so have turned up here before that happened! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 13:57, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I'm hoping this is obvious to someone ... at Template:Lexus, I'd like to suppress the white border between a couple of cells, specifically the first row of timelines against "Entry-level luxury" where the two halves of 1989 are distinguished. The only reason they're distinguished is to help control the width of each column; that whole table uses %ages for widths and so any unmanaged column width can be out of proportion. I've tried various keywords and CSS approaches, with no success. TIA -- AndrewHowse ( talk) 20:30, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
I occasionally clean up user tests by looking at where Example.jpg, Example.png etc. are used. The "what links here" for Example.png ( this page) comes up with Shanghai (among a few others), which gets it from {{ Shanghai Labelled Map}} which in turn gets it from {{ Image label begin}}. As most of the users of this template don't show up, I'm guessing that there's something wrong about the use of this template specific to its use in Shanghai. Perhaps a a parameter wasn't supplied properly, but I confess I can't fathom what. Can someone help figure out what's wrong, so we can clear the link list? Thanks. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 22:45, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
An hour or so ago, we were apparently updated to r70061. This seems to have broken the use of "max" as a value for the various limit parameters in the API; attempting to use them will now give a fatal error. This has already been reported as T26564, hopefully they fix it soon. This may cause user scripts and other tools that use the API to stop working. Anomie ⚔ 03:49, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
For at least three or four years, the phantom page on my watchlist "Wikipedia:BJAODN/C" has been on my watchlist. For some reason it will not disappear from my watchlist despite any removal actions. The page is long gone except for the watchlist...even creating then deleting it long ago did not work. Today I use Camino 2 (= Firefox 3.0), but this issue is much older and goes back to 2007 or so.
Can anybody provide any sort of technical assistance? Raymie Humbert ( local radar | current conditions) 04:41, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Today, now and again -- but only occasionally -- I get whole pages that have the wikilinks not underlined (this is a setting you can choose in your prefs, mine is set to always). Anyone else have this happening? ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ ( talk) 00:12, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
When I go to edit the Lujerului metro station article the text is backwards (right-to-left), yet when viewing the article normally, Mediawiki renders it the correct way (left-to-right).
It appears that this edit simply reversed the text in the infobox template, and which as a result affected the entire article for some reason.
Can someone tell me why MediaWiki does this? I'm pretty sure it's not a bug but I just don't know what the purpose of this 'feature' is. My guess is that it's a side-effect of the transwiki import process from right-to-left language Wikipedias. -- œ ™ 07:14, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is a bug, or a deliberate feature, but when the <math> tag decides to generate a LaTex PNG it defaults to producing a black-on-white image, even when the tag is embedded inside a table that has a background colour, for instance
Plain text | Complexs maths starts and ends |
Should the LaTex PNG generator be told the the style of the region it is in, and default to the style? I know it does support foregrounds, but does not appear to support the colorbox or pagecolor functions to set the background. CS Miller ( talk) 12:15, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Plain text | Complexs maths starts and ends |
{| border="1" style="background: darkgreen; color: yellow"
| Plain text
| <math>Simple maths</math>
| Complexs maths starts <math>\definecolor{Darkgreen}{rgb}{0.145,0.255,0.090}\pagecolor{Darkgreen}\color{Yellow}\sqrt[3]{x^3+y^3 \over 2}</math> and ends
|}
What is this? It's not a link. It is, however, kind of annoying. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 16:09, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
See, e.g., Divorce demography. Sorting the table by the column "Crude divorce rate" in descending order puts the United States (3.6), correctly after Moldova (4.14), but incorrectly ahead of Puerto Rico (3.67) and Ukraine (3.66). -- Wfaxon ( talk) 17:01, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Something is blocking the display of comments here: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Jesus&action=history Noloop ( talk) 17:31, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Henrik's traffic counter is down. I'm desparate to know the number of page views for a DYK... Please fix it... Kayau Voting IS evil 01:02, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
I added image notes to two photos stored on Commons, File:State Govt Complex.jpg and File:Michigan Ave from Boji Tower.jpg. Is there anyway to get them to show up on the enwp file description page? I added both to Capitol Loop, but because of the number of state buildings in the first photo (7) I wouldn't want to try to list them in the caption. The easiest thing to do would be point the reader to click on the photo to see them, but the image notes only seem to work on the Commons file page. Imzadi 1979 → 22:45, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Is it possible to directly link a user to a tab in hir preferences page? Something like [[Special:Preferences/Watchlist]]. If necessary, a small bit of Javascript could query the URL the page was loaded from, detect the tab in it, and the click on it. CS Miller ( talk) 16:18, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Following on from the above question, I think it would be useful if the [[Special:preferences]] Watchlist tab had a direct link to [[Special:Watchlist]] or even [[Special:Watchlist/edit]]. A typical user's response to the preferences/Watchlist tab might be 'yes, but how do I actually edit my watchlist?' CS Miller ( talk) 16:18, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
When printing from the Vector skin, all page are appended with
This is unnecessary and was removed in monobook. Could someone please remove this for the Vector skin...I don't want to waste pages every time I print...18:53, 1 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smallman12q ( talk • contribs)
With <ref name="title"> one can repeatedly cite the same source by using <ref name="title" />. Is there something comparable for the {{citation}} template? ENeville ( talk) 19:35, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
<ref>
and {{
citation}}
are usually used together, so if you want to repeat some citation, you just repeat the whole <ref>
. Why do you want that?
Svick (
talk) 20:52, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
<ref>
tag?) to refer to that same footnote again after that. Or is there a version of {{
citation}}
for followup citations? Succinctly, I guess, I'm trying to exploit the data formatting of {{
citation}}
without having the clunkiness of repeating its giant template throughout the text.
ENeville (
talk) 21:28, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
{{citation}}
, you can use something likeSome text.<ref name="the book">{{citation | first = First | last = Last | title = The Book}}</ref> More text.<ref name="the book" />
<ref>...</ref>
tags to create the numeric in-text citation, with the actual citation included inside the <ref>...</ref>
tags but showing in the reference list. The citation can be formatted with a template. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk 22:40, 1 August 2010 (UTC)Our citation templates, and infoboxes for books and journals, emit COinS metadata. Can we find a way to also emit the same thing for each article, about the article itself? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:18, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
OrangeDog: Yes; though I don't recall discussing this with you previously. Smallman12q: The metadata that would allow someone to cite the article itself. For example, for the article Pink Floyd (viewed today and last edited yesterday), would emit:
Though we might include a permalink for the specific version, and a time as well as date. This would allow people who cite the page to collect the citation information into a tool like Zotero and then output it into their document or web page in one of a number of citation styles. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:51, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
oldid
in the metadata every time the page is rendered? (And of course, the corresponding oldid
when an old version is rendered.)date
in this context, and how is it different from accessdate
? (Date of article creation? If so, your example is incorrect.)display:none
means that it is not found by tools such as the OpenURL Referrer extension for Firefox, thereby defeating the purpose of including it.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 23:08, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Having closed an MFD for User:Cats & dogs forever/Sandbox/Secret page as delete I am trying to delete it, but (for several hours now) whenever I try I get a message saying "Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem" with an error message like:
Request: GET http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Cats_%26_dogs_forever/Sandbox/Secret_page&action=delete&wpReason=%5B%5BWikipedia%3AMiscellany+for+deletion%2FUser%3ACats+%26amp%3B+dogs+forever%2FSandbox%2FSecret+page%5D%5D, from 79.78.22.204 via knsq23.knams.wikimedia.org (squid/2.7.STABLE6) to ()
Error: ERR_ACCESS_DENIED, errno [No Error] at Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:45:12 GMT
Windows XP SP3, Firefox 3.5.11
JohnCD ( talk) 20:54, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Currently, large rangeblocks are sometimes used against persistent, banned vandals that rapidly change IP addresses. Some of these long term abusers have caused hundreds of thousands of IP addresses to be blocked for extended periods of time, potentially preventing many new users from ever contributing. Is there any possibility of developing a new system for IP and unconfirmed users analogous to pending changes? In this system, new IP's and unconfirmed users from an IP range used by a dynamic IP vandal would be classified as "provisional users," whose edits would require approval by a reviewer before they were visible to the general community. Users who had their edits marked as vandalism by a the reviewers could be blocked by an automated process to prevent increased workload on administrators. This way, innocent new contributors would be less impacted by the actions of a few vandals. VQuakr ( talk) 03:33, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
How do I keep the items which are absolute in my template, in the template? In other words, when I use absolute in a template, then use that template on another page, how do I keep the absolute elements in the template.
Relative is much harder to use, as each new item added effects those items around it.
Thanks in advance! I hope this question is clear...
Adamtheclown ( talk) 06:14, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
{{PAGENAME}}
etc.--
Patrick (
talk) 23:12, 3 August 2010 (UTC)I looked through my contributions and clicked on this topic, and replied to it.
But in my contributions, this is the address where the reply went, even though the above topic is still on the reference desk. What's going on? Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:34, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
I see that 769 dead links to the US State Department got archived; if anyone is ever interested enough to fire up a project to fix these, please drop a note on my talk page as I don't normally have the pump on my watchlist. I left a note at WT:WikiProject United States Government as well. -- CliffC ( talk) 21:31, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
I logged in yesterday and clicked on the link to my watchlist. But instead of taking me to my watchlist a screen came up that said "you must be logged in to view your watchlist," even though I had logged in. So I clicked the link to log in, and suddenly, without typing in anything, I was logged in again. This happened to me twice yesterday. What's going on? The Raptor Let's talk/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 23:28, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
It's been working fine for me, too. Wonder if it's been fixed? The Raptor You rang?/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 14:36, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
after the first time this appeared I didn't save when I got an edit conflict like this one. I copied the thing I wrote from the diff and re-added it to the section instead. Kayau Voting IS evil 08:58, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
I've started seeing this weird bug occasionally: two entries in the References section have the same number. In the screenshot at right, the 14 refs are numbered 1–13 with two different #8 listed. After clicking various intra-page links for a while, the displayed eventually heals back to a proper 1–14 consecutive list. The numbering in the article itself and the crosslinks to/from the footnotes are correct (i.e., even when the bug is visible, the [number] inline marks are properly numbered and go to the "correct" (matched, and what would be that number if the reflist were consecutive) item. For example, in the screenshot, there is a #14 in the Godwin's law section, that links to ref #13. DMacks ( talk) 18:11, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
If this is a FAQ please excuse me (and please provide a reference) but none of my search efforts have turned up an answer.
From the looks of it, the table classes sortable and autocollapse don't seem to work together. I can make a table sortable, I can make a table collapsible, I can make a table both sortable and collapsable, but no matter what I try I can't make a table sortable and autocollapsible. Is this a bug, a deliberate feature or am I doing something wrong? In case it matters (I deem it unlikely to be a browser/OS issue, but you never know): I'm using Opera 10.10 for Linux through Linux emulation on FreeBSD. Skysmurf ( talk) 02:59, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
collapsed
and autocollapse
, the latter only works if there are 2 or more collapsible tables on the page. —
AlexSm 03:49, 4 August 2010 (UTC)Almost every time I try to edit a page, glitches in the text show up after I'm finished. These glitches randomly change bits of text throughout the article, such as "Metastasis" becoming "Metast9 GM" or "Metas<s��s" and "security cameras" becoming "securitawaymeras". (Here's an example: [14].) It usually happens in areas of the article no where near the place I was actually editing. It never happens in the preview of the edit, only after I save the page. Using the sandbox first really doesn't help because even if I can correct the errors there, more will just appear when I go to the article itself. I have no idea why this is happening, and I even tried using a different web browser. (I was using Google Chrome before, and am now using Firefox, and nothing has changed.) My operating system is Windows Vista. Tesseract-7 ( talk) 06:25, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Is there a way to enlarge the text which appears in the editor while editing? Maybe adding something in my own CCS page? What about choosing the font that appears in the editor while editing? -- Mahmudmasri ( talk) 16:53, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
textarea { font-size: 150% }
Example: International recognition of Kosovo is at the edge of max number of templates/article. Most of them are from references. A naive solution is to convert them. How? Materialscientist ( talk) 10:05, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Right. This problem is intrinsic to many large WP articles. Many of them are also relatively important, but are really difficult to edit (some give wikimedia crash windows). That is why posting here. Country flags and references eat up most templates. Stripping flags would make some articles ugly (changing to non-templated flags?). Non-templated refs don't harm anything, but there are hundreds of them, that requires some automated solution. Materialscientist ( talk) 12:34, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Created importScript("User:Smith609/toolbox.js") some days ago on a modern.js It did not create a widget on my toolbox. I also tried it with single quotation marks importScript('User:Smith609/toolbox.js') and it still did nothing. Left a talk page message for Smith609 several days ago, but have had no response. I have Firefox 3.6.8 and my Java 6.0.140.8 plug-ins are enabled. It is the same issue if I use my IE 8.0.6001.18702 Can anybody offer some insight? Maile66 ( talk) 19:46, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Got an error message that might mean something, when I click on the grayed out Custom regex: "Custom is not defined Javascript:custom()" -- Maile66 ( talk) 12:35, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
More of the Error Console's error code message. I do not use Google Chrome, if this is what it's referring to. Mean anything to anybody?: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIWebProgress.removeProgressListener]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml :: removeProgressListener :: line 394" data: no] Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIWebNavigation.loadURI]" nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/viewSource.js :: viewSource :: line 221" data: no] -- Maile66 ( talk) 20:26, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Green_Bay-Titirangi_United was recently moved from Green Bay/Titirangi. Now while the talk page it is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Green_Bay-Titirangi_United and displays "Talk:Green Bay-Titirangi United" as the heading, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Green_Bay-Titirangi_United gives a heading of "Green Bay/Titirangi". (no sign of redirect message and address bar still shows Green Bay-Titirangi United). diff at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Green_Bay-Titirangi_United&diff=377255908&oldid=377255849 shows this to be the last diff, as does oldID: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Green_Bay-Titirangi_United&oldid=377255908 . History shows another edit http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Green_Bay-Titirangi_United&diff=377255909&oldid=377255908 which has an even later diff which when you go t onext edit seems to go back to the previous "move" edit. I've cleared my cache, restarted firefox, screwed up my lip and held my head at a 37.5degree tilt and it still doesn't want to behave itself. Is it just me or is someone else seeing this?--ClubOranje T 09:18, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Has anyone seen this [15]? I had to accept my own revisions (see page history)? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:13, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes, a section heading will have a note, explaining that "article foo links to here" or "redirect foo links to here", so that editors don't accidentally break incoming links when they change the wording of the heading.
e.g. something like: == History <!-- the redirect [History of foo] links to this section --> ==
Is this practice described or recommended anywhere? I can't find examples, but I'm sure I've seen it in action, somewhere... Thanks. -- Quiddity ( talk) 20:19, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
How do we best achieve the reverse of this, for {main} links? - We desire a system that is able to list which articles are using {{ Main}} to link to the target-article.
e.g.
Alphabet#History includes the template {{
Main|History of the alphabet}}
, but we wish to know how many other articles also include it.
Another editor has proposed a slightly cumbersome method at VPR, and hence I'm wondering if there is a more elegant solution. (Note: manually searching for the exact text doesn't seem to work at all [16], however an automated method is what we're requesting...). Thanks. -- Quiddity ( talk) 21:24, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
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Something is wrong with the new messages functionality for me. Maybe 30 minutes ago I started getting these notices when there were no new messages. Sometimes there's a short delay before the message stops appearing after I've checked my messages. Once it goes away, it reappears withing a few minutes. -- Ronz ( talk) 19:06, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm getting indications that articles I've been editing don't even exist, and that people I send Talk messages to are not even registered. Server lag? Everard Proudfoot ( talk) 22:43, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
It looks like this needs to be exposed publicly, because I see lots of people blanking pages. Everard Proudfoot ( talk) 23:17, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
Every time I go to Recent changes, I still get the page as of 22:10. I have to clear cache every time, sometimes twice. Everard Proudfoot ( talk) 23:25, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
It appears to be an issue with one of the database servers only (db40). I've alerted our sysadmins to this and it should be sorted out soon.-- Eloquence * 00:25, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
False alarm. My bad. – droll [chat] 03:25, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm getting the new messages bar really frequently even after I check the message. Its been about and hour since the real new message appeared. Derild 49 21 ☼ 23:26, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
This gadget is apparently redundant since there's an "edit area font style" option in preferences. vvv t 00:32, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
So it seems that there is a function named #tag somewhere. It's used in {{ nowiki}} and in several other templates I've looked at. Does any one know if it's documented anywhere. I would expect it to be at MediaWiki somewhere but I can't find it. The syntax seems to be {{#tag: (tag name) | (string) }} —Preceding unsigned comment added by Droll ( talk • contribs) 02:24, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
nowiki
or imagemap
) without the HTML opening and closing < >
.
Intelligent
sock 02:30, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
{{#tag:nowiki|{{{1}}}}}
to accept a parameter and then nowiki it (producing code such as <nowiki>http://ezinearticles.com/</nowiki>
instead of <nowiki>{{{1}}}</nowiki>
from the parameter http://ezinearticles.com/
).
PleaseStand
(talk) 02:39, 3 July 2010 (UTC)I'm looking for a template to easily equip a template with hex no.s such as in Template:Infobox military unit. Where do I find it? E.g. {{hexcol|#######|########}}. -- 217.189.229.123 ( talk) 23:36, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
{{color box|blue}} {{color box|yellow}}
gives and <code>{{color box|blue}} {{color box|yellow}}<code>
gives
. --
Scriberius (
talk) 11:08, 3 July 2010 (UTC)I hope I'm not reposting this question.. When I access an OGG or OGV file with Firefox on my Mac, the buttons are blank -- see this image, taken from this article. It doesn't happen with Safari; that player is sleek and works fine. Perhaps there is something I need to adjust on my browser? I expect other users are having this problem, too. Cheers! Scartol • Tok 12:55, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I raised this issue in mid-June. The problem persists. It happens whether I'm logged in or not logged in. It seems to get worse the more I use WP in a given session, but that could be coincidental. When I click on something, Firefox 3.6.6 gives me a "waiting for . . ." message in the status bar. It can sometimes take 20-40 seconds to come back. Other times, no wait at all. If there is an excessive wait and I click on the link again, I usually get an instantaneous response. On some things, though, I'm reluctant to click twice because I'm not sure what effect it will have on the database, i.e., saving editing changes. My Internet download connection speed is above 10Mbps. I don't have this problem on other sites. I simply don't know what to do, but editing has become very frustrating because of it.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 15:38, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I followed advice I was given here when I found out my computer still had pages I had visited even though I appeared to have no history. Now, though, I seem to have to sign in everywhere, including Wikipedia. It's not that big a deal since my computer has the software which fills in passwords automatically, though without that I was unable to access one of my email accounts because of rules they have about passwords (though I still remember that crazy password for that address). I can remember the password if the password software messes up, since I use Wikipedia at libraries, but it's just annoying. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:25, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, what I'd like to do, for example, is have a little program/macro that can interface with non-editable Wikipedia pages such as 'My contributions' (or, someone else's contributions). Ideally it would read and collect (in memory or as an appendable file) a pageful of data at a time, then virtually click on 'next 100' until the end. I can write code, but I don't know how to interface with Wikipedia, or what language is required. I'm sure this is spelled out somewhere, so if you just point me to the documentation I can figure out what I might be in for. Thank you, CliffC ( talk) 22:01, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Anybody care to venture as to why the insecure wikipedia is down? The secure still seems to be partially up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.115.30.110 ( talk) 01:44, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
(I know this is the wrong place, but it is up enough to receive edits :-) )
The error page for wikinews.org still refers to Meta in its title, heading and icon. Mark Hurd 121.45.22.104 ( talk) 02:49, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
I would like to know which function do we use when copying a content from a wikipage or from a textfile to a wikipage or a textfile. Thanks in advance, -- Jagwar - (( talk )) 10:56, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
dict.txt
with the content encoded as
UTF-8 and set out like this:{{-start-}} '''Title of first article''' Wikitext of first article goes here {{-stop-}} {{-start-}} '''Title of second article''' Wikitext of second article goes here {{-stop-}}
— Richardguk ( talk) 15:03, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
X:/.../pagefromfile.py -start:{st} -end:{ed} reading dict.txt End of file.
This might be more appropriate on Commons, but I got a positive result here the last time I had the same problem. This file was moved to Commons a few days ago, but thumbnail generation seems to be broken: is there a way to force it to be regenerated? The SVG itself looks to be okay once it's clicked through. Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 09:17, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
Hmmm. Was this caused by the upload process, or just a bug in the original file? Chris Cunningham (not at work) - talk 21:19, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
I'm hoping there is a way to discover the height of an image assuming that the name of the image file and the width are known. I realize this not likely but I thought I'd ask anyway. It would be useful in a template I've been working on. – droll [chat] 04:53, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
xHeightpx
or WidthxHeightpx
) help you?
Svick (
talk) 12:31, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
P.S. The template could use a better name. – droll [chat] 02:05, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
#mediaheight
and #mediawidth
) but
is not currently installed on English Wikipedia. So the information cannot be obtained by templates on this wiki. —
Richardguk (
talk) 06:30, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
Maybe this is a strange way to do it, but I put links to web pages I want to go to in emails to myself so I can do it from any computer.
There was a link to [1]--at least that's what is visible in the email. [2] is what came up.
Likewise, [3] appears in the email, but clicking on it produces [4]. You'll probably send me to the Computing Reference Desk since it's not likely a Wikipedia problem, but I don't see how something like this could happen. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 17:44, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
"Somehow or other" doesn't answer the question. It doesn't seem to provide me with a way to "View Source". Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 22:28, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
<a href = "http://www.example.com/the_old_version" >http://www.example.com/the_new_version</a>
(which in Wikitext is equivalent to
http://www.example.com/the_new_version
or loosely equivalent to a misleading piped link like [[the_old_version|the_new_version]]
). So just delete the old stuff and paste the URL in from plain text afresh, to ensure that you are not inadvertently pasting in hidden code. (If you are copying from HTML, such as your web browser, and don't know how to make sure it is only plain text when you paste it in, first paste it into a plain text editor such as Notepad, then copy it from Notepad and paste into your email textarea.) —
Richardguk (
talk) 18:17, 2 July 2010 (UTC)For the umpteenth time - this is not your personal computer help desk. This is for discussing technical issues regarding English Wikipedia. OrangeDog ( τ • ε) 13:03, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
I notice that https://secure.wikimedia.org/ throws an error about containing unencrypted content in Firefox (latest update). Can this be fixed? 76.117.247.55 ( talk) 05:00, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
When I enable the mwEmbed and Twinkle gadgets, videos (such as the one on today's featured article) don't load. Firefox's error console says:
Error: _this.moduleLoadQueue[moduleName] is undefined Source File: http://prototype.wikimedia.org/mwe-gadget/mwEmbed/ResourceLoader.php?class=mwEmbed,mw.style.mwCommon,mw.EmbedPlayer,mw.style.EmbedPlayer,$j.ui,mw.PlayerControlBuilder,$j.fn.hoverIntent,$j.ui.slider,mw.PlayerSkinKskin,mw.style.PlayerSkinKskin,$j.fn.menu,mw.style.jquerymenu,mw.TimedText,mw.style.TimedText,mw.SwarmTransport,mw.EmbedPlayerNative&uselang=en&urid=r136 Line: 55
Chrome says:
ControlBuilder,$j.fn.hoverIntent,$j.ui.slider,mw.PlayerSkinKskin,mw.style.PlayerSkinKskin,$j.fn.menu,mw.style.jquerymenu,mw.TimedText,mw.style.TimedText,mw.SwarmTransport&uselang=en&urid=r136:55Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'loaded' of undefined
Without Twinkle, mwEmbed works. -- Nx / talk 13:42, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
I noticed today that at
Crucifixion and
Crucifixion in the arts, the image file
File:Dionysus Crucifixion.gif displays as though the file has been deleted (a red link), as it does here, and yet the file does indeed still exist at Commons
commons:File:Dionysus Crucifixion.gif. I cannot find anything wrong with how the file name is entered on these pages. Am I missing something, or is there a bug? Thanks. --
Tryptofish (
talk) 19:01, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
In my post at the talk page of WikiProject Chemistry i tried to bring to notice an issue which in my view affects every WikiProject and is thus a serious bug. Please see the post for details. I hope someone has a solution. -- Siddhant ( talk) 20:41, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
I initially posted this at the Help Desk, although I kind of had it in the back of my head that I should post this here. When I search for certain items, it seems that the search bar brings up strange results. For instance, searching "Doctor Who (" turns the "(" into an "a" ( an example here in this segment of a screen cap) and a search for "Doctor Who h" turns the "h" into an ":" (i'm using Doctor Who examples because that's what I was indeed looking for when I discovered this). I get the bug with other searches (like, "Star Trek o") or when I search for a single word and a space (like "Star " turns "Starting Pitcher" into "Star ing Pitcher" and "Starbucks" into "Star ucks" and "Life " turns "Life Imprisonment" into "Lifebimprisonment"). In fact, I just noticed this now, but searching for "life" then two spaces turns the searches into "Lifebo+(rest of search result phrase beginning with "Life"), three spaces turns the search to "Lifeboa+(rest of search result phrase beginning with "Life"), eg "Lifeboaimprisonment", and so on until "Life+17 spaces" full reveals "Lifeboat (shipboard)" over the search results. I get the same thing if I search words like "time", "star", "rose" and "royal" and a bunch of spaces or any spaces (even sometimes one). Bizarre! Doc Strange Mailbox Logbook 16:42, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
I have no problems reading pages, they look normal. But when I try to edit, the edit page opens normally but within a second changes to one in which the screen is almost completely taken up with the edit field. I can see the edit toolbars (wikiedit, etc), the edit summary field, and just under that the top half of the Save Page, Show Preview, etc. buttons (I can't even remember, should the 'content that violates copyright be above these as they are in the IE browser I'm using right now?). Nothing on the left or right side of the edit field at all, and no scroll bars. It suddenly happened a few minutes ago while I was using Chrome, and all other pages look normal, it's only when editing that I have the problem. Dougweller ( talk) 10:45, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
In my opinion the page headers provided by {{ template sandbox notice}} and {{ template test cases notice}} are very useful. Is there anyway that the information can be displayed on such pages system wide and without user intervention. If such a thing were to be implemented, maybe there should be a way to disable it in preferences as someone would probably object. Maybe not. – droll [chat] 08:04, 5 July 2010 (UTC)
Strange, I have the option to
when looking at the block form for a named user? – xeno talk 23:34, 6 July 2010 (UTC)
The m:Template:Extension changes color depending on what an editor enters as the property of {{{switch}}}
Unfortunately, the parser instructions at m:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions are not very helpful.
So if I wanted to make a section of an infobox template appear or not appear dependent upon what the editor enters in, how would I do this?
Say I have this template:
{{Infobox |header1 = {{#switch: {{{{{found|}}}|Idaho={{{found}}}|}} }} | label1 = Location | data1 = {{#if:{{{found|}}}|{{{found}}} }} }}
I know this coding is incorrect....
How would I make it that, ONLY if {{{found}}} = Idaho then header1 will be visible? But if {{{found}}} is something else, it will not be visible?
Thank you so much in advance for your help, I am so confused and don't know where else to ask on wikipedia. God bless. Adamtheclown ( talk) 05:40, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
{{Infobox |header1={{#ifeq:{{{found}}}|Idaho|{{{found}}}}} | label1 = Location | data1 = {{{found|}}} }}
Bawolff ( talk) 05:57, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Any time I try to view a page that does not exist on Wikipedia (a redlink), I have gotten this message. This just recently started happening. Anyone got answers? A p3rson ‽ 20:32, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
P.S.: Firefox 3.6.4, running on Vista Home Premium x64
Which license do wiki templates fall under? The wiki content license (Creative Commons) or the wiki software license (GPL2)? What about other sites that use MediaWiki? SharkD Talk 21:29, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Usually, external links are written in the way [http://www.google.com.ar/ Google], which produces Google. But what happens when there are brackets inside the URL, and the link gets broken? Is there an alternative way to link? MBelgrano ( talk) 02:21, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
I was looking something up on Hydrogen and noticed a bunch of redlinks in the periodic table in the top right. This turned out to be a failed link to Image:Transparent.gif - which is linked to by a plethora of pages. I then noticed I wasn't logged in, so I logged in. The file appeared. I logged out. The file redlinked.
Something isn't right here - I tried switching browsers to see if it was cookie-related, but the problem persists (newest Opera and IE7). The gif simply isn't there if you're not logged in.
I can imagine that some features and tools should only be presented to admins/bureaucrats/etc, so there's levels of things that are and aren't presented to different types of users. But why this applies to a utility image is beyond me - also why logged-out (ie IP) users not able to access some things that are accessible to logged-in users without any rights, except things like (semi)protection which are handled serverside. -- Firien need help? 09:37, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Is there any means of manipulating strings (e.g. chopping the first character)? I need something like this to manipulate a parameter. -- Redaktor ( talk) 14:24, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
{{
str crop}}
seems to be something along the lines of what you're looking for, only backwards. If there's no alternative you could try {{str_right|{{{1}}}|{{#expr:{{str_len|{{{1}}}}}-{{{2}}}}}}}
(which is that template with str_right
instead of str_left
). Bear in mind that all of these templates are expensive and somewhat capricious.
Intelligent
sock 14:39, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Pending changes seems to ignore this setting, adding &diffonly=0
to the URL. Is there any way to show only the diff to avoid the rather long rendering time when reviewing? (It seems that there should be a setting for this somewhere that furthermore should be independent from the other setting, and I still get the reviewing interface when deleting the &diffonly=0
part of the URL). I am not looking for CSS based fixes since they do not actually prevent rendering and reduce load time.
PleaseStand
(talk) 19:34, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
&diffonly=0
being added? If you want "diffonly", it should be &diffonly=1
.
Calvin 1998 (
t·
c) 22:21, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
&diffonly=0
at the end, which overrides the preference). There does not seem to be a preferences option to suppress the diffonly=0 or replace it with diffonly=1.
PleaseStand
(talk) 23:05, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi there, is CSS opacity still working? See Portal:Cornwall/Random banner/1, it's not working anymore, and there haven't been any changes to that page. If it is still working does anyone know how to fix it on that page? Many thanks, -- Joowwww ( talk) 22:10, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
style="/* insecure input */"
. It seems the CSS property filter
is considered insecure by MediaWiki and so the whole style is ignored. After I removed the filter
, it started working as it should in Firefox, but I think opacity
doesn't work in IE.
Svick (
talk) 23:26, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
I believe "page view statistics" is incorrect. Shouldn't it be "page-view statistics"? Kdammers ( talk) 01:40, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
Kdammers ( talk) 10:39, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
Did some sort of over-all structural change happen about 2 weeks ago that caused the Wikipedia to now take eons to open? (Maybe that is when I started to notice it...) When I Google a subject and then from the list provided, click on the Wikipedia link, it takes forever for the page to open - even when I am on Cable or high-speed wifi or on other computers. Sometimes I just open the link in a new window and set it off to the side to eventually load at its pleasure. Wikipedia used to be one of the fastest sites to load, and now it is markedly slower than any other site I access lately. I am just wondering why. Thanks Saudade7 18:46, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
importScriptURI(' http://wikisource.org/?title=MediaWiki:DynamicRC.js&action=raw&ctype=text/javascript');
I need to create links to several of the Thomas Eakins works in the collection of the De Young Museum. To see them, here, search for "Eakins." You will be presented with several paintings, and clicking on them brings you to the description pages I'd like to link to. However, the website does not use canonical URLs. Is it still possible to link to those pages? Raul654 ( talk) 05:29, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
http://gallery.famsf.org/gallery/artworkDetails.htm?record=61009&idx=3&galleryId=&searchType=advanced&keyword=Search By Keyword&exhibit=&country=¢ury=&gallery=&building=&barCode=Search By Bar Code&accessionNumber=Search By Accession#
, change this to just
http://gallery.famsf.org/gallery/artworkDetails.htm?record=61009
. The record number is all it needs to display the relevant picture and text, though the resulting page does not include all the menus so you probably ought to include a separate link to the relevant
section URL. Not very neat but it works.I've just learned that cite errors, such as the ones discussed here, are not shown to Internet Explorer 8 users. I see that the text is contained in the CSS class, "Error", and I presume that is the cause but does anyone know if this is an intended effect or a bug? AJ Cham 13:05, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
I would like to know what are the right robots.txt settings to put in my crawler to be able to download wikipedia from online following wikipedia policy. I will apreciate any information that could help me solve this issue. Here are some screen capture i took when i put the crawler to download wikipedia. http://www.ojoss.com/dumpd/
Thanks odelinespinosa@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.75.76.204 ( talk) 21:43, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
dumpd
is, but this error may be because it doesn't set the
User-Agent header. But, unless it's only very few pages, you shouldn't download pages from Wikipedia automatically. You should use the
API or
database dumps instead.
Svick (
talk) 22:17, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
Stats only 5 days of July. Last stats July 6. Anybody know someone who can get this up? 69.237.157.250 ( talk) 01:41, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Can anyone more clueful that me work out why Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Administrator_abuse_on_Wikipedia isn't being archived by MathBot even though it's closed? I've seen malformed closes on AfDs resulting in MathBot being confused, but I can't see the problem on this one. It's causing the list at Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Old to be stretched longer than it should be. It could be fixed by just commenting out the AfD on the 27 June page, but it'd be nice to fix it properly. Black Kite (t) (c) 21:47, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
If you type Ph.D into the Wikipedia search box in the Vector skin, the first two suggested matches are identical, "Ph.D".
If you try the same in Monobook, the second suggestion is "Ph D" with a space instead of a dot.
In Vector, the second suggestion - although it is "Ph.D" - actually links to Ph D. Chzz ► 01:35, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
Forgive me if this is the wrong place; feel free to point me somewhere else.
If I disable images in my browser - Firefox 3.0.19, Windows XP, monobook - and look at a semi-protected page which is a 'Good article', the text This article is semi-protected to prevent violations of Wikipedia's biographies of living persons policy. overlaps both the article title and the text This is a good article. Click here for more information. - I have uploaded a screenshot here. I'm using 1024x768.
Another user, on Firefox 3.6.6 on Ubuntu, using both Vector and Monobook, has the same effect; although at 1600 resolution it does not overlap the title part, but it does if they shrink the window.
A third user checked and saw the problem with Firefox 3.6.6 on Windows 7.
Again, apols if this is a known issue. Chzz ► 17:16, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
alt
parameter in the image wikicode, like |alt=Good article
. Not sure if anybody will be willing to do the change though. —
AlexSm 15:38, 13 July 2010 (UTC)An external website says that it can only present more organized information about a user's edits if the user opts in by creating a page EditCounterOptIn.js under the user page. When attempting to start that page, the heading says
and then
Is this cause for concern? Cephal-odd ( talk) 05:59, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Something is amiss with the Wikipedia system.
When I clicked on the link to a diff in the edit history of 2010 G-20 Toronto summit, the page which was displayed was the unrelated Residual-current device? A short while ago, I clicked on another link which produced an anomalous result, e.g.,
In other words, the page displayed on the monitor and the http:// at the top of the screen are mismatched?
If this this not the place to alert someone, what is the better venue?-- Tenmei ( talk) 18:49, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Yep, that'd be the problem. Diff links must refer to the correct diff ID number to work, and if you have the right ID the article name listed in the URL is rather irrelevant. -- erachima talk 20:57, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
{{ ISBN}} uses Special:BookSources to give a listing of various search engines and libraries for books. {{ coord}} runs ~geohack on the toolserver which does the same for geomapping. Do we have an equivalent facility for text search? Something that lists general search engines and even better, specialized ones too, with a preloaded query? Franamax ( talk) 23:13, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
Can someone who understands templates, and maybe even nesting of templates, and the best way to do things help us add a field to opt out of italic titles? Thanks. If this request should go somewhere else, please say so. - Peregrine Fisher ( talk) 03:57, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
{{ Autopatrolled}} and {{ Reviewer_topicon}}, these two templates are transcluded in my userpage. When I open my userpage, sometimes the topicons seem like this: File:Mybug 02.png (the left light blue bar is the vertical scroll bar; I am using Mozilla Firefox) and sometimes like this one: File:Mybug 01.png. I have also applied it to other pages (ie my userspace and User:Alexanderps), but i have got the same result. Is there anyone having the same problem? How can I fix this problem? -- Amit6 ( talk) 11:08, 11 July 2010 (UTC)
Referring to this question, I discovered that with Internet Explorer 8 I can stay signed in if I delete my history without "Cookies" checked. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 21:45, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
The user preferences panel gives an option to exclude bot edits from your watchlist, which is all well and good. However, is it possible to somehow exclude specific users from your watchlist instead? (I would ignore the archival bots and signpost distributor, specifically.) Ignoring all bots is not acceptable to me because I often have images watchlisted which I did not upload, and therefore would not receive the deletion notices for, but which I would not see bot deletion tagging for if I excluded all bots from my watchlist. Thanks. -- erachima talk 20:57, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
I don't know if it's just me, but I can't compare revisions from a page history at the moment. I get the error messge You have either not specified a target revision(s) to perform this function, the specified revision does not exist, or you are attempting to hide the current revision.. It may just be coincidence, but I've just had the admin bit restored to my account [7] - maybe this has screwed something up. Any thoughts? (For info, I'm in classic skin running on IE6) — Tivedshambo ( t/ c) 12:51, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
importScript('User:Superm401/Compare_link.js'); // turn "compare selected revisions" into a copyable link
Since auto update to Firefox 7.0.1 (been a while), whenever I try to 'Compare Selected Revisions', my system doesn't know what to do with the return index.php, and asks whether to save it or select the program to open it. I suspected was Firefox, but checking on IE 8.0.6001.18702 returning same error. I'm running on XP - Service Pack 3.
Not a show stopper, but quite frustrating. Any suggestions for settings / installations gratefully received.
Best wishes Haruth ( talk) 20:50, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
Discussion about the recent interface changes are at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/May 2010 skin change. Please comment there to keep discussion in one place. |
My employer's IT recently updated our browsers from IE6 to IE7 (yeah, a 'lil behind the times), but in doing so, most of my gadgets no longer work, especially popups, HotCat, and the RefToolbar. Since I've never had an issue with this on my home computer on IE7 or IE8, I'm guessing it must be that some of the settings may have changed, but I'm not sure which options to begin fiddling with. Both computers use Windows XP. Any idea where to start, like security and javascript? bahamut0013 words deeds 17:19, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
http://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1luPp50mVg6d1CXAs_Qrdn7f6eJZmAO5tBT2roVyL1o0&hl=en http://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1vce2qdjCVVaEEN7ODssSBRjLU1DR0Cew_DkrdJaUESQ&hl=en
Can we use a content based search engine for document search in Wikipedia. The above link will guide you through a mathematical search engine, which uses a Principle Component Analysis to provide most appropriate results. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Prashant.prashn ( talk • contribs) 03:56, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
For the past few days, some message has been appearing for a tenth of a second at the top of my watchlist, maybe twice a day. It's not in the page source. I'm still using monobook, so my wild guess is that they're trying to sell me on vector ... anyone know? Anyone know a url where I can see the message? - Dank ( push to talk) 15:43, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Where exactly do I go to create a user subpage?-- Woogie10w ( talk) 20:45, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
If mediawiki:common.css has coding such as this for a class:
table.bigbox{ border: 1px solid #aaaaaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; color: black; }
...and I create this template:
{{bigbox | image = {{{image|}}} | headerstyle = background-color:#FFFFFF | data1 = {{{helpmeplease|}} }}
And with the "data1/helpmeplease" parameter I don't want:
What type of coding can I use to make sure there is no border?
I tried style formatting and nothing worked.
I hope I wrote this clearly, thank you so much in advance for your help! Adamtheclown ( talk) 20:12, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
Example | |
---|---|
This is an infobox without border. |
{{
infobox}}
or {{
navbox}}
)? I'm afraid there is no single solution, but most of those meta-templates should provide a parameter to override the style. For example, in the case of {{infobox}}
, you can use this code (the result is in on the right):{{Infobox | bodystyle = border: none; | above = Example | data1 = This is an infobox without border. }}
I would like to make a diagram listing size ranges for Miniopterus bats from the data at List of bats of Madagascar#Family Miniopteridae. This would look similar to File:Subfossil lemur C14 ranges.svg. Is there a way to do this on-Wiki, using some intricate kind of formatting or the EasyTimeline extension, or do I need to create an image? Ucucha 16:19, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
<timeline>
for other purposes, so I would suggest creating an image.
SVG is probably the best format, because it's scalable and can be relatively easily edited.
Svick (
talk) 16:31, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
HOW ON EARTH do I publish my edited page?!? Or make the page "go live"? I cannot find this topic in ANY help sections, ANYWHERE. I've been looking for hours. It must just be ridiculously simple, obvious, and right in front of my face. I just want to move it from my userspace to become an actual Wikipedia article. This is very frustrating. Please help! —Preceding unsigned comment added by SportsScienes ( talk • contribs) 16:53, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Are there publicly available stats on the popularity of the various skins among Wikipedians? If so, where are they? I imagine those figures could be quite interesting in light of the recent Vector implementation. Thanks for the help. — Anonymous Dissident Talk 03:35, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
I've written a tool in vb.net 2.0 that allows automatic/assisted {{ cite news}} citations with the following websites:
The tool and its source are available at sourceforge. If you find it useful/worthwhile, please leave a note and I'll consider further development...Enjoy. Smallman12q ( talk) 23:39, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
The {{ citation needed}} template is causing the paragraph following the one to which it is attached to run together. The bug is only evident when the second paragraph begins with a wikilink. For instance,
Poodles make great bacon sandwiches. citation needed
Animal cruelty should not be allowed on Wikipedia.
works fine. But,
Poodles make great bacon sandwiches. citation needed
Animal cruelty should not be allowed on Wikipedia.
results in the two lines being run together. This is not happening here on this page: it appears to only be a problem in the main namespace, which is very odd, but it is easily verified by pasting the above text in to an article and viewing it in preview. I have tried this in IE6, Firefox 3.5 and 3.6 - all with the same result.
I have no idea how to fix this. SpinningSpark 14:03, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
Per the above-linked bugzilla, and this discussion, this preference will likely be removed shortly (as users often set it and forget it, causing non-minor edits to be marked minor).
The preference will be reset to the default; those who used previously this preference could probably use a script to restore the functionality, if desired. – xeno talk 21:30, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
if(wgAction == 'edit') {
addOnloadHook(function minorEdit() {
document.getElementById('wpMinoredit').checked = true;
});
}
Here's something better. It remembers your last minor edit setting in a cookie. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 08:20, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
if(wgAction == 'edit') {
addOnloadHook(function minorEdit() {
addHandler(document.getElementById('wpMinoredit'), 'change', minorEdit_change);
if (document.cookie.indexOf("minorEdit=true")!=-1) {document.getElementById('wpMinoredit').checked = true };
} )
}
function minorEdit_change() {
var e = new Date();
e.setTime( e.getTime() + (24*60*60*1000) ); // one day
document.cookie = 'minorEdit='+document.getElementById('wpMinoredit').checked+';expires=' + e.toGMTString();
}
The above script sets future edits to the same setting as your most recent edit. It does this for one day before reverting to marking all edits to major edits. I don't see the purpose of this script and it seems extremely error prone to me, as there is no true default in this case and the "default" that is set expires without warning. I recommend against its use. Bigmantonyd ( talk) 23:35, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
if(wgAction == 'edit') {
addOnloadHook(function minorEdit() {
document.getElementById('wpMinoredit').checked = true;
}
)}
I don't like this. The choice was made, by me, to set my edits as default. This choice was made by me. This choice is something I stand by. This choice should be respected. I do not like the notion that my edits will have to be manually set to minor while this is my default behavior. I am appalled by this move. Maki ( talk) 20:33, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
I also think this is absurd. Maybe someone could convert one of these experimental scripts into a simple checkbox on my Editor Preferences that would let me toggle the minordefault
value. Perhaps just unhide the one that is still there. A different repair would be to just set the value in my user record back to true and forget about either the script or checkbox. Anyway -- I've used the 1st (3rd) script in Vector skin's "Custom JavaScript" . --
LantzR (
talk) 08:48, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I am currently assisting a non-technical user who is stuck with having every edit marked as minor with no way to turn it off. That hidden box needs to be turned off for all users by a 'bot. Giving the users a way to turn it back on would seem to be a Good Thing for users such as Makitk above who appear to know what they are doing, but the hidden box needs to be unchecked for users who don't do something special to keep it turned on. I am sure that there are many other users who, like mine, have been spending years inadvertently marking all edits - including major changes - as minor without really knowing what a minor edit is or why their is an m next the every edit. There is a larger issue as well: when a user interface option is hidden, careful thought needs to be given to the users who now have an unchangeable user preference. Guy Macon ( talk) 15:04, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
I tried to use the syntax highlighting code "<syntaxhighight lang="rsplus"></syntaxhighight> (for the R programming language, but it appears that rsplus is not supported in wikipedia. Can anyone confirm that "rsplus" doesn't work or let me know if there is a bug listed for GeSHi to update the languages on wikipedia? Thanks. Protonk ( talk) 01:50, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
I get the same behavior you do - the docs say rsplus is supported, but trying to use it gives an error message that doesn't list it as one of the supported options. I can't find a bug report for this, so I'd go ahead and make a new one if I were you. — Gavia immer ( talk) 02:23, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
I create new Template:Location map2 with ideas from de, ru, fr and uk wiki. This template works also with location map templates with y, x parameters, for example: Template:Location map China1, Template:Location map Canada1, Template:Location map Russia1, Template:Location map Africa1. May be it need to include code of Template:Location map2 to Template:Location map?-- Амба ( talk) 21:17, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
Hey all, recently we redesigned the header for Wikipedia:Reference desk pages and added another search box for the whole of wikipedia in case people miss the one at the top. These are put side by side, see for example Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing. Problem with this is it increases the minimum horizontal resolution for the header to above 800 pixels.
While I left a suggestion on the talk page, no one has yet came up with what would seem to me to be the obvious solution, make them gracefully switch from being side to side to one below the other as necessary. Does anyone know if this is possible and if so, how to do it?
Nil Einne ( talk) 06:33, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Normally, if I click on a Wikipedia image, it takes me to the description page for that image. Recently, I haven't been able to click on any image at all. I'm still using the MonoBook skin, in IE8. -- S-man ( talk) 19:06, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
I have been experimenting with the use of a sub-template to create references to an external site which uses structured URLs, created by an existing template {{ London Gazette}}.
My intention was that the parameters in my new template which creates the row in the data table would include three for the reference: {{{issue}}}
, {{{date}}}
and {{{page}}}
. Those three parameters would be used by the row-building template to call a sub-template which would create a named reference for one of the columns, as follows: <ref name="{{{issue}}-{{{date}}}-{{{page}}}">{{London Gazette |issue = {{{issue}}} | startpage = {{{page}}} | date={{{date}}} }}</ref>
That would give me properly formatted references, with names which allow cite.php to merge refs to the same page
In my tests I have incorporated error-checking to ensure that all parameters are present, and have successfully passed all the parameters. {{
London Gazette}} is called ... but all the parameters in <ref name="{{{issue}}-{{{date}}}-{{{page}}}">{{London Gazette |issue = {{{issue}}} | startpage = {{{page}}} | date={{{date}}} }}</ref>
are empty.
To demonstrate this, I have set up a simple test at User:BrownHairedGirl/sandbox, in which the template {{User:BrownHairedGirl/myref]]}} is passed a one-word parameter. As you can see the parameter has a null value both in creating the reference name and in creating the text of the ref.
Is this a known bug, and is there any workaround?
It may sound like an esoteric issue, but in this case it would make it much easier to create and maintain a long series of references, particularly since each reference will be shared by an average of about 30 entries. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 14:41, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
{{#tag:ref}}
in place of <ref name="etc.">content</ref>
seems to fix it.
Intelligent
sock 15:13, 18 July 2010 (UTC){{#tag:ref}}
, but that fixes it all. --
BrownHairedGirl
(talk) • (
contribs) 11:37, 19 July 2010 (UTC)If the "Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary" feature is enabled in preferences and an edit summary is not entered, it prevents non-autoconfirmed users from saving edits which trigger the captcha. The edit window gets locked into a cycle of entering the captcha, being informed you didn't enter an edit summary and clicking continue to save without one, and being asked for a captcha again. Obviously this is easy to overcome by disabling the feature in preferences or entering an edit summary, but new users may be unaware of what they are doing wrong, and may assume the captcha is the problem 1230049-0012394-C ( talk) 16:29, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
This appeared while viewing User talk:White Shadows. I'm running The latest Firefox on Mac OS X 10.6.3. ~ NerdyScienceDude ( ✉ • ✐ • ✍) 18:15, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello. However it is that we are able to display articles such as iPhone with a leading lowercase letter, could someone please do that to Inext? - Richard Cavell ( talk) 14:41, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
{{
Lower case title}}
to make it look like it starts with a lower-case letter.
OrangeDog (
τ •
ε) 12:04, 20 July 2010 (UTC)Is this script still working for other people? All I get is the "You have not edited this page! (recently)" message (even when I have). I'm still using the monobook skin.-- Dodo bird ( talk) 23:32, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Is it possible to write a script (or is there one already?) that will check which skin and browser you're using and show them a different version of the page based on that? I'm currently talking about the problems at HJ Mitchell's userpage with the English flag at top. It won't look right in Vector when it look right in MonoBook and looks bad in MonoBook when it looks good in Vector. I know that there are scripts that you can add to your monobook.js or vector.js. Mr. R00t Talk 16:49, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
I know that. I need to be able to be able to access whatever program it uses and put it on a page. I'm hoping that it will work similar to {{REVISIONUSER}}. Mr. R00t Talk 18:19, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
Is there any desription to AWB library - wikifunctions.dll? Besuglov.S cont / talk 16:34, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
Are you familiar with the function of exporting from OpenOffice to MediaWiki? See Wikipedia talk:Tools#Exporting from OpenOffice.
Thank you. -- Amir E. Aharoni ( talk) 21:27, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
I've been around a few years and have a bloated watchlist (about 12,361 entries). I'd guess that many hundreds of them are redirects that were created automatically when pages were moved. When I sit down to delete some entries from the list I get discouraged at the thought of checking all of those to find the redirects. Does anyone know of a way to determine which articles are redirects automatically? Perhaps starting with pasting the watchlist into a page? Or using some tool? (This was inspired by trying out Huggle and finding it timing out when checking my watchlist, though I found a work-around for that). Will Beback talk 07:43, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
.watchlistredir { font-style:italic; }
to your personal css file. This will display redirects in italics. —
Tivedshambo (
t/
c) 07:58, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
Or, use Anomie's link classifier script:
importScript('User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js'); // Linkback: [[User:Anomie/linkclassifier.js]]
importStylesheet('User:Anomie/linkclassifier.css'); // Linkback: [[User:Anomie/linkclassifier.css]]
The follow the instructions at the top of that page to bypass the cache.
See User:Anomie/linkclassifier.css for a list of the other link colors. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 17:51, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this belongs here, and I ask to be excused if it does not. I noticed something odd that is there when I open anyone's contributions page.
(latest | earliest) View (newer 250 | older 250) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)
There are two spaces (an extra space) between "newer 250" and the vertical bar. This applies always, no matter whose contributions I'm seeing, no matter how many edits I've chosen to view, and no matter whether I'm logged in or not. Why is it so? -- Theurgist ( talk) 07:05, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
The MOS:FULLSTOP guideline says: "The number of spaces following the terminal punctuation of a sentence in the wiki markup makes no difference on Wikipedia because the MediaWiki software condenses any number of spaces to just one when rendering the page." Is that true regardless of what browser the reader is using? Long previous discussion here. Art LaPella ( talk) 05:52, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
Why do images on wikimedia have option to annotate images but on wikipedia they do not? Kallimachus ( talk) 01:14, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
There's way too much separation between Wiki projects. I want to have a transwiki watchlist where I can keep an eye on Wikipedia Pages in various languages as well as files I keep an eye on in the commons and entries I've contributed to in the dictionary. It's way too much of a pain to keep an eye on everything, so certain things go unwatched or unresponded to.
Am I the first one to bring this up? Don't many of you have the same complaint/problem? Chrisrus ( talk) 05:40, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
I've been away for a while. Today I return to make an edit and found the edit summary hidden away(on a mobile device) to the right of the page. if I wasn't really aware from before that edit summaries are desirable I would not of even realised entering an edit summary was possible now. Where did the discussion happen on moving it's position? What where people thinking? Is entering an edit summary something no longer desirable? Don't we want newbies especially to enter edit summaries as much as they can? Regards, SunCreator ( talk) 10:09, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
For some reason this coding does not work:
{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|Template||'''[[New York City]]'''}}
I want to create a condition, that:
If a the namespace IS a template, '''[[New York City]]''' will NOT be shown.
If the namespace is NOT a template, '''[[New York City]]''' WILL be shown.
Any suggestions? Can I use magicwords this way? If not, is there another way to do this? Thank you for your time. Adamtheclown ( talk) 14:27, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Not sure if this is the right place...but how do you cite/reference an annotation? Smallman12q ( talk) 16:03, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
{{#tag:ref|On page viii of ''The Caldecott Aesop: Twenty Fables : A Facsimile of the 1883 Edition'', a production note states that the "majority of color plates were made from the first woodblock renderings of Caldecott's work." The statement is not sufficiently clear to indicate to what extant the original blocks were used, however the cracks in the color plates suggest that the original blocks may in fact have been used.{{#tag:ref|Richardson, p. 33}}|group="a"}} This worked =). Smallman12q ( talk) 17:46, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
Shouldn't each article link to its
DBPedia equivalent? Either at the end of the interwiki links, and/ or through a meta header: <link rel="alternate" href="http://dbpedia.org/page/Birmingham">
for
Birmingham, for example?
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 16:30, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
User:guillom of the Wikimedia Multimedia Usability team has published some results on his blog of the first testing done of the usability of Wikimedia Commons upload process, and the results of the first prototype for the new upload wizard that is currently under development. See also the following movies:
Please contribute your ideas, and you can test the prototype if you want. I note that some of the results might apply to other processes as well. The "i'll just skip all this, because it is too much text" being the most notable usability issue that will likely apply to many other pages. — TheDJ ( talk • contribs) 20:08, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
I was looking at a very long article, but if I went back to it the computer would have to scroll down to get back to what I was reading. However, it didn't do that. It jumped forward to an article whose link I clicked on earlier while looking at the very long article, and the back button was no longer blue, meaning it couldn't be used.
I've asked similar questions before but no one seems to have an answer for this. Sometimes with very long articles or emails the back button won't go back to them, or the forward button won't go back to them. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:11, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
And it just happened again. I used the back button several times and it wouldn't go forward again because THIS page is so long. I should also add I have IE8 and Vista. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:13, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm seeing the forward button turn gray instead of black when the computer scrolls down in a long article or other type of page. It doesn't usually happen in a short article. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:58, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm sure I mentioned Deepwater Horizon oil spill. I planned to reproduce the sequence of events on the computing reference desk (people were responding more here), but I never got around to it. I can't today because there's not enough time. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 13:14, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
The __NOINDEX__ and {{noindex}} directives aren't that well-known or well documented.
I was creating subpages under User:Geo Swan for years before I became aware of them.
__NOINDEX__ directive and robots.txt seem to work differently. A robots.txt, with the appropriate contents, tells well-behaved web-crawling robots, like those that search engines use to find contents, will honor the robots from indexing the files in that directory, and all subdirectories -- while the __NOINDEX__ directive only applies to the article on which it has been placed.
I wonder, since, to a web-browser's robots, the subpages of User pages are just files and directories, couldn't a properly drafted robots.txt eliminate the need to put the __NOINDEX__ directive on all our subpages?
If a file has already been hidden from web-browsers, then a {{ userspace draft}} would be redundant, and unnecessary, wouldn't it?
Thanks! Geo Swan ( talk) 23:21, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
I noticed a minor fault in how (presumably) MediaWiki renders a page, and will describe it in case anyone wants to follow up. The events took place at WT:Requests for comment/Jagged 85#Cleaning up the problem:
Conclusion: the <p> caused MediaWiki to misrender two paragraphs below. Johnuniq ( talk) 00:08, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
<p>
element contains the indented text, which is parsed according to its own wikitext rules, then the paragraph tag is implicitly closed by
HTML Tidy at the next section heading. HTML
tag soup does not mix well with wikitext porridge. In fact wikitext porridge does not always mix well with wikitext porridge. It's a quirky syntax at the best of times. —
Richardguk (
talk) 00:36, 23 July 2010 (UTC)<p>
element addled things such that when JohnV added another implied paragraph (i.e. blank line), MedaiWiki got confused; it failed to parse Johnuniq's && JohnV's posts such that it generated two paragraph; it goofed, and wrapped them in just one; JohnV's blank line being reduced to a mere space. MediaWiki got it wrong, here, and the improperly formed embedded <p> was what triggered the mis-generation of served-code.Template:ref label wraps its content in a span, rather than a div. This causes problems when the background color is set, because if the line spacing is wide enough then the underlying background color seeps through the cracks. There is a thread about this on the template talk page.
The CSS that is set in Common.css [10] refers directly to the span tag, not just the .citation class name. I have not looked up the javascript that takes care of changing the background color.
I don't know enough about our CSS/javascript setup to try to fix this problem. If someone with the knowledge has time to fix it, it would be appreciated. — Carl ( CBM · talk) 00:56, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
citation
, so I suspect it is something to do with that class. Compare to this link.
[1]References
reference
. The reference list is an ordered list inside a div, whereas the template uses a span. I think you are going to have to convert it to use a div. If you get it working, the same fix should be applied to other reference templates. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk 03:38, 23 July 2010 (UTC)When I make changes to an article, I click on Show preview to see my changes. If I put in a Wiki link, for example, I can click on the link in the preview and make sure it works. However, if I make a citation change and click on the superscript citation, I can't see how the citation resolves. Thus, I have to Save page, check the resolved citation, and if I screwed up, go back in and fix it. Is there a way to do what I want without saving the page (short of using a sandbox)?-- Bbb23 ( talk) 01:14, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
Add this to Special:MyPage/skin.js and purge the page per the instructions at the top of the page:
importScript('User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js'); // Linkback: [[User:Anomie/ajaxpreview.js]]
At the bottom of the edit window, you will find a button marked Ajax Preview w/Refs. ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 02:02, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
<references />
Thanks very much for the suggestions.-- Bbb23 ( talk) 22:55, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
A recurring problem that makes WP look amateurish is the main page spacing. On the right is a story about Kosovo but there is a picture of a man that looks (pardon my ignorance) like he might be from south India. If the pictures can be lined up, this would be better. Suomi Finland 2009 ( talk) 22:11, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
For a number of months now, a nontechnical Wikipedia editor named Vchimpanzee has occasionally reported problems to the Computing Reference Desk involving a disappearing forward-history in IE8. ( Here is his most recent thread, a lengthy attempt to be meticulous in his bug report.) I just reproduced the problem on my machine under IE8 but am having trouble reproducing the problem reliably. My one repro case was that I edited WP:SANDBOX, clicked Link A, then clicked Link B, then pressed Alt-left-arrow on the keyboard, which took me to Link A as expected, but the browser's "Forward" button turned from blue to gray, indicating the forward-history had been lost. Then, the Back command brought me, surprisingly, to Link B.
Is it possible that some feature of Wikipedia's use of AJAX is interfering with the alt-left-arrow or alt-right-arrow keyboard shortcuts of IE8? Without a good repro case that is my first guess at the source of the issue. Comet Tuttle ( talk) 21:15, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
I am having a unique problem with dialogs in Apple Safari 5, Google Chrome, and Opera 10 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (does not occur in FF4). The best way to explain it is with the image above. Any ideas to fix this? — mono 01:28, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
I've noticed a tendency towards people using https://secure.wikimedia.org/... (the secure server) when giving diffs. I suppose I can understand that for highly-sensitive abuse issues, but is there is any reason for it on general noticeboards like WP:WQA and WP:RSN? I understand the possibility of man-in-the-middle attacks and so forth, but that seems highly unlikely, so I'm curious whether there is a technical reason for using secure diffs. Johnuniq ( talk) 01:39, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
importScript('user:js/urldecoder.js') // decodes external links to be internal
I found a glitch with the script today...when using search (with the old monobook style)...if you do a transwiki search such as "commons:main" you will be taken to the unsecure version of the commons main page. Smallman12q ( talk) 01:29, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
I was wondering is there a smart way to filter a page's revision history to see all my edits to the page? Thanks Rjwilmsi 09:12, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
I want a code that disables some images in a page, but enable others when written on my_user_page/monobook.css. The code body.page-Muhammad img {display: none;} makes all images disappear. I want to write a guide to disable only some images in the page for religious people. Dbachmann advised to ask any of your mates on how to install the Adblock Extension, but I am planning to write a simple guide without using a program outside Wikipedia by just changing the code body.page-Muhammad img {display: none;} that is used in the guide to disable viewing pictures in Muhammad page. This is my user page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Kavas. For this experiment, I have added 4 pictures, 2 of them are OK and 2 of them are bad for religious people. I want to disable the first and the fourth images on this page but enable the second and the third images at the same time with a simple code on User:Kavas/monobook.css. Is it possible? I have to say that this is not a censorment, because today users can change monobook.css by following a guide to disable viewing all images in a page, but I want to change the guide to filter only specific images. The aim is to write a guide to disable specific images in Muhammad page by changing someone's monobook.css. Kavas ( talk) 15:31, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
body.page-Muhammad ahref="/wiki/File:Aziz_efendi-muhammad_alayhi_s-salam.jpg" img,
body.page-Muhammad ahref="/wiki/File:Siyer-i_Nebi_151b.jpg" img {
display: none;
}
body.page-Muhammad img {
display: none;
}
body.page-Muhammad ahref="/wiki/File:Aziz_efendi-muhammad_alayhi_s-salam.jpg" img,
body.page-Muhammad ahref="/wiki/File:Siyer-i_Nebi_151b.jpg" img {
display: block;
}
Hi. Template:Sørlandsbanen includes 613 Template:BS, which itself contains one ifexist. The result in the parser count is: “Expensive parser function count: 613/500”. Could someone optimize it? By the way, State highways in New Jersey is in a similar case. Thanks. Dodoïste ( talk) 23:19, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
That latest change disabled my Firefox (3.6.8) browser (using Windows 7) from choosing the font I have specified for IPA in my own user:Mahmudmasri/vector.css. I need help. The latest change made it only possible for my browser to choose my specified font if there were texts written as {{IPA|/tekst/}} only after I wrote that: span[class|=IPA] rather than .IPA, but I still have a problem: all the IPA wikitables such as Help:IPA conventions for English#Vowels don't choose my specified font for IPA. TheDJ told me, “span.IPA or adding !important before the ; should work as well. Because the CSS is now added by Javascript, it is higher in importance than things in your skin css.” I tried what he told me by many ways, but failed. I need help. -- Mahmudmasri ( talk) 03:11, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
body .IPA
for instance. Problem solved. —
TheDJ (
talk •
contribs) 15:51, 26 July 2010 (UTC)What's going on with the Toolserver? I just clicked a recently-added {{ coord}} template and received a HTTP 404 Not Found error; thinking that it was perhaps bad coords, I went to http://www.toolserver.org, only to get an identical result there. I'm running IE 8.0.6001.18928, although I doubt that causes any problems. I've tried refreshing, but the same result comes up; however, other websites aren't giving me any problems at all. Nyttend ( talk) 15:50, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
I'd love to hear an explanation of this. This "secret" page was just exploited by a vandal. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 21:05, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Query: can one force a TOC entry from inside a table? if so, how? Д-р СДжП,ДС 21:56, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
==
is only recognized at the beginning of a line, thus you must have a newline between the row markup and the header markup:| ====Header===
Proposal: For anonymous users extend the user identifier (IP address) with a browser cookie. E.g. "1.1.1.1/12345".
Reason: Can help discriminating between good faith contributors and vandals operating from the shared IP address. Currently it is difficult / almost impossible to determine which particular user is editing from the shared IP address. This task is difficult even for humans, but automatic vandalism detection tools are particularly affected. Banning these shared IP contributors or forcing these users to register is ineffective and contradictory to the 'anyone can edit' principle. On the other hand adding a browser cookie to the anonymous user identifier (IP address) is fairly simple and potentially may resolve shared IP problem.
Comments? -- Dc987 ( talk) 03:00, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
As a checkuser, I would prefer not to see this implemented. It would be best for me to not say why. -- Deskana (talk) 16:13, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
I have previously proposed this at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)/Archive 60#Effectively warning school IPs in a slightly different form. Essentially, the cookie would be temporary (1 hour expiry) and only used for the purpose of user warnings. The user talk pages themselves (including name) would be the same, and a user would still be warned if he clears his cookies (to the extent that the current system works). Comments? PleaseStand (talk) 00:49, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm looking for some advice on the technical viability of a list which is most clearly structured as a large (648-row) 7-column sortable table.
It's a list of the Members of Parliament elected at the United Kingdom general election, 1832. Other similar lists in this series have been implemented as a table split into sub-sections (by initial letter of the constituency name), for example in List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1857. This works well enough if the constituency name is known in advance, but for other uses (such as looking for MPs returned for Welsh boroughs), it's not much good, because the sectional structure prevents it from being sorted on other attributes.
So when I was preparing the data for 1832, I kept other data fields as I started building the list, and have now produced a draft with about 45% of the MPs listed: see User:BrownHairedGirl/1832 MPs with gazette. I'm quite pleased with how it works from a reader's POV: the all-one-table sortable columns work well, and I do like having each constituency explicitly referenced to the the authoritative source, the London Gazette.
However, I do wonder whether it's just too big. :(
The markup of 648 references to 32 footnotes and 648 sort-keyed entries is obviously fairly bulky, but the gzipped page is so far only only 44kB, which doesn't seem excessive in terms of download bandwidth, although the rendering of that much markup is probably fairy resource-intensive. The HTML served up the server is currently about 540kB uncompressed, and when the list is complete it will probably be about 750kB.
However, my concerns arise from editing the table. My PC has lots of RAM, but it still seems unhappy about editing the section with the list: after the edit box appears, it takes about a minute of processing before it's ready to allow me to start editing the box. Fine after that, but the delay is significant; my 4GB 1.3Gz laptop is far from cutting edge, but it's no fossil, and I can imagine older PCs struggling very badly. The contents of the editbox are currently about 210Kb, and once complete will be about 300Kb; that's big.
When I save changes, there is a lot of template processing to be done, and it takes a minute or two for the rendered page to be displayed. That's not a problem for me, and it's server issue which won't become more acute with older client PCs.
So, is this big table a step too far? And if so, how should I resolve the problem?
I'm very reluctant to go back to the static segmented table as used in the List of MPs in 1857.
The first option I tried was stripping out the gazette references, at User:BrownHairedGirl/1832 MPs no gazette. That reduces the editbox size by about 50Kb, which probably is not enough to make a great difference.
So I have been wondering about splitting the list into sub-pages, of the form User:BrownHairedGirl/1832 MPs with gazette/A, User:BrownHairedGirl/1832 MPs with gazette/B etc, and then transcluding the subpages into the main page. That will certainly resolve the problems with editing ... but am I right to think that apart from the problems caused by stuffing 200kB into the editbox, the other points are all manageable?
(Sorry if I have missed some relevant guideline. I have checked Help:Table, WP:TABLE and WP:LIST, but can't find anything which addresses this issue). -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 15:01, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
subst
or for whole blocks of text via
Special:ExpandTemplates) and possibly manually simplifying the resulting wikitext.On the off-chance that anyone is interested, this is just a quick note to say that I have completed the list and moved it to mainpsace at List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1832. I think that by splitting up the list into sub-sections and slightly reducing the number of template calls, it all works acceptably, apart from taking a long time to save changes to the main list. I have left a few notes on the technical issues at the list's talk page. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 13:12, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Something that annoys me is the two hyphens standing before the signature when I press the signature button to sign my edit:--~~~~ Is there any way to remove this, because it annoys me to remove them every time I sign my edits. MichaelJackson231 ( talk) 08:24, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
Let's say Example page does not exist. An IP user cannot create Example page. They can create Talk:Example page. New page patrollers have a blind side to talk page creation on the assumption the article page exists, and once created, nobody is watching it. Or worse, the talk page becomes a fake article written by some banned user, and a new page patroller helps them out by moving it from talk to article space.
So, is it a Wikimedia feature to not allow talk page creation when the article doesn't exist? Should it be? SchmuckyTheCat ( talk) 20:33, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
Looks like changing a few words in the middle of the first sentence of a paragraph causes the software to think that it's a different paragraph.
See [11]. The first paragraph should be side-to-side with the new first paragraph, since only 3 or 4 words have. The following five paragraphs are pushed down even if they didn't change at all.
I'm seriously considering printing the diff so I can highlight it with a red pen. -- Enric Naval ( talk) 13:03, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
<references></references>
or {{reflist|refs=}}
you can place all citations in the references section instead of in the middle of the prose. That makes it easier to distinguish, as in cases such as this, between changes to citation template use and changes to prose. (There are a couple of prose changes in there that the changes to the templates are obscuring.) It also makes the prose easier to read in the raw wikitext. (It can be made to closely resemble Harvard style in the raw wikitext.)
Uncle G (
talk) 13:38, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
I made a couple of minor edits [12] to this template and now it won't display correctly... any idea what's going on? I'm obviously missing something very simple!-- Pondle ( talk) 16:50, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Hello, I've googled and searched Wikipedia for info on this but it doesn't seem possible. Basically i just want to organise my fast growing watchlist into categories for easy reference. I've tried editing the raw watchlist to change the wording, but that seems to change links and it a bit of a faff anyway. Is there really no way to add pages to categories, in the same way as adding a bookmark to your browser and deciding which section to put it in? Any help much appreciated and apologies in advance if i've been thick and missed something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richyratton ( talk • contribs) 10:18, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Many thanks Richard - still seems a bit complicated, but then I don't really understand how wikipedia links - for instance, i was looking for a 'reply' button to get back to you on this, but it seems i have to edit the whole thing? Is there some techy reason in the coding why browser style bookmarking can't be implemented? kind regards. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richyratton ( talk • contribs) 13:06, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
Thanks everyone, have suggested it at village pump for proposals. -- Richyratton ( talk) 10:45, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Sometime before January 21, 2010, the US State Department changed its website address from usinfo.state.gov to america.gov without providing any sort of redirection for existing links. That change broke all citations to usinfo.state.gov. They are still broken.
The situation was reported at EAR here. An EAR editor confirmed the problem and reported it to WikiProject United States Government here. Trying to follow a citation today, I discovered it still exists.
A Linksummary shows ~769 links to usinfo.state.gov, all of them broken. Clicking on any returns server not found.
I don't have any bright ideas, but I think this should be addressed. I'll volunteer to fix a couple of dozen (it's not a one-for-one fix, things have moved around) if a project is set up. Interestingly, we have more of these now than we did in January. -- CliffC ( talk) 21:22, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
http://usinfo.state.gov/ei/Archive/2005/Jul/25-988565.html http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2005/July/20050722112754ndyblehs0.3616144.html
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=september&x=20060914165844ndyblehs0.0821802 http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2006/September/20060914165844ndyblehs0.0821802.html
"
http://usinfo.state.gov/eap/Archive_Index/Taiwan_Relations_Act.html Taiwan Relations Act: Public Law 96-8 96th Congress] Sec. 4 under APPLICATION OF LAWS; INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS"
, Googling site:america.gov for "taiwan relations act" gets 44 hits, but adding the "96-8" from our title gets zero.
http://usinfo.state.gov/gi/Archive/2005/Apr/11-390328.html "What is Earth Day?"
, but it would take someone familiar with the article to pick the right target from the 631 hits at the site.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0701/ijdf/frjacsdb.htm US Info
– zero Google hits for "Comparative juvenile criminal law", 27 for "juvenile criminal law".Here are two links found at random that are quite similar:
http://usinfo.state.gov/xarchives/display.html?p=washfile-english&y=2006&m=August&x=20060809124617nainawhdaw0.8614466 http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2006/August/20060809124617nainawhdaw0.8614466.html
-- CliffC ( talk) 00:34, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, if one edits say Help talk:Moving a page, you get two editnotices saying the same thing ( Template:Editnotices/Namespace/Help talk ), I started to look into it but then noticed a sign saying 'caution technical: your head might explode!' so have turned up here before that happened! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 13:57, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Hi, I'm hoping this is obvious to someone ... at Template:Lexus, I'd like to suppress the white border between a couple of cells, specifically the first row of timelines against "Entry-level luxury" where the two halves of 1989 are distinguished. The only reason they're distinguished is to help control the width of each column; that whole table uses %ages for widths and so any unmanaged column width can be out of proportion. I've tried various keywords and CSS approaches, with no success. TIA -- AndrewHowse ( talk) 20:30, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
I occasionally clean up user tests by looking at where Example.jpg, Example.png etc. are used. The "what links here" for Example.png ( this page) comes up with Shanghai (among a few others), which gets it from {{ Shanghai Labelled Map}} which in turn gets it from {{ Image label begin}}. As most of the users of this template don't show up, I'm guessing that there's something wrong about the use of this template specific to its use in Shanghai. Perhaps a a parameter wasn't supplied properly, but I confess I can't fathom what. Can someone help figure out what's wrong, so we can clear the link list? Thanks. -- Finlay McWalter • Talk 22:45, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
An hour or so ago, we were apparently updated to r70061. This seems to have broken the use of "max" as a value for the various limit parameters in the API; attempting to use them will now give a fatal error. This has already been reported as T26564, hopefully they fix it soon. This may cause user scripts and other tools that use the API to stop working. Anomie ⚔ 03:49, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
For at least three or four years, the phantom page on my watchlist "Wikipedia:BJAODN/C" has been on my watchlist. For some reason it will not disappear from my watchlist despite any removal actions. The page is long gone except for the watchlist...even creating then deleting it long ago did not work. Today I use Camino 2 (= Firefox 3.0), but this issue is much older and goes back to 2007 or so.
Can anybody provide any sort of technical assistance? Raymie Humbert ( local radar | current conditions) 04:41, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Today, now and again -- but only occasionally -- I get whole pages that have the wikilinks not underlined (this is a setting you can choose in your prefs, mine is set to always). Anyone else have this happening? ♫ Melodia Chaconne ♫ ( talk) 00:12, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
When I go to edit the Lujerului metro station article the text is backwards (right-to-left), yet when viewing the article normally, Mediawiki renders it the correct way (left-to-right).
It appears that this edit simply reversed the text in the infobox template, and which as a result affected the entire article for some reason.
Can someone tell me why MediaWiki does this? I'm pretty sure it's not a bug but I just don't know what the purpose of this 'feature' is. My guess is that it's a side-effect of the transwiki import process from right-to-left language Wikipedias. -- œ ™ 07:14, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure if this is a bug, or a deliberate feature, but when the <math> tag decides to generate a LaTex PNG it defaults to producing a black-on-white image, even when the tag is embedded inside a table that has a background colour, for instance
Plain text | Complexs maths starts and ends |
Should the LaTex PNG generator be told the the style of the region it is in, and default to the style? I know it does support foregrounds, but does not appear to support the colorbox or pagecolor functions to set the background. CS Miller ( talk) 12:15, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Plain text | Complexs maths starts and ends |
{| border="1" style="background: darkgreen; color: yellow"
| Plain text
| <math>Simple maths</math>
| Complexs maths starts <math>\definecolor{Darkgreen}{rgb}{0.145,0.255,0.090}\pagecolor{Darkgreen}\color{Yellow}\sqrt[3]{x^3+y^3 \over 2}</math> and ends
|}
What is this? It's not a link. It is, however, kind of annoying. Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 16:09, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
See, e.g., Divorce demography. Sorting the table by the column "Crude divorce rate" in descending order puts the United States (3.6), correctly after Moldova (4.14), but incorrectly ahead of Puerto Rico (3.67) and Ukraine (3.66). -- Wfaxon ( talk) 17:01, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Something is blocking the display of comments here: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Talk:Jesus&action=history Noloop ( talk) 17:31, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
Henrik's traffic counter is down. I'm desparate to know the number of page views for a DYK... Please fix it... Kayau Voting IS evil 01:02, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
I added image notes to two photos stored on Commons, File:State Govt Complex.jpg and File:Michigan Ave from Boji Tower.jpg. Is there anyway to get them to show up on the enwp file description page? I added both to Capitol Loop, but because of the number of state buildings in the first photo (7) I wouldn't want to try to list them in the caption. The easiest thing to do would be point the reader to click on the photo to see them, but the image notes only seem to work on the Commons file page. Imzadi 1979 → 22:45, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
Is it possible to directly link a user to a tab in hir preferences page? Something like [[Special:Preferences/Watchlist]]. If necessary, a small bit of Javascript could query the URL the page was loaded from, detect the tab in it, and the click on it. CS Miller ( talk) 16:18, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
Following on from the above question, I think it would be useful if the [[Special:preferences]] Watchlist tab had a direct link to [[Special:Watchlist]] or even [[Special:Watchlist/edit]]. A typical user's response to the preferences/Watchlist tab might be 'yes, but how do I actually edit my watchlist?' CS Miller ( talk) 16:18, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
When printing from the Vector skin, all page are appended with
This is unnecessary and was removed in monobook. Could someone please remove this for the Vector skin...I don't want to waste pages every time I print...18:53, 1 August 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smallman12q ( talk • contribs)
With <ref name="title"> one can repeatedly cite the same source by using <ref name="title" />. Is there something comparable for the {{citation}} template? ENeville ( talk) 19:35, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
<ref>
and {{
citation}}
are usually used together, so if you want to repeat some citation, you just repeat the whole <ref>
. Why do you want that?
Svick (
talk) 20:52, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
<ref>
tag?) to refer to that same footnote again after that. Or is there a version of {{
citation}}
for followup citations? Succinctly, I guess, I'm trying to exploit the data formatting of {{
citation}}
without having the clunkiness of repeating its giant template throughout the text.
ENeville (
talk) 21:28, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
{{citation}}
, you can use something likeSome text.<ref name="the book">{{citation | first = First | last = Last | title = The Book}}</ref> More text.<ref name="the book" />
<ref>...</ref>
tags to create the numeric in-text citation, with the actual citation included inside the <ref>...</ref>
tags but showing in the reference list. The citation can be formatted with a template. ---—
Gadget850 (Ed)
talk 22:40, 1 August 2010 (UTC)Our citation templates, and infoboxes for books and journals, emit COinS metadata. Can we find a way to also emit the same thing for each article, about the article itself? Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 20:18, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
OrangeDog: Yes; though I don't recall discussing this with you previously. Smallman12q: The metadata that would allow someone to cite the article itself. For example, for the article Pink Floyd (viewed today and last edited yesterday), would emit:
Though we might include a permalink for the specific version, and a time as well as date. This would allow people who cite the page to collect the citation information into a tool like Zotero and then output it into their document or web page in one of a number of citation styles. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 17:51, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
oldid
in the metadata every time the page is rendered? (And of course, the corresponding oldid
when an old version is rendered.)date
in this context, and how is it different from accessdate
? (Date of article creation? If so, your example is incorrect.)display:none
means that it is not found by tools such as the OpenURL Referrer extension for Firefox, thereby defeating the purpose of including it.
Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing);
Andy's talk;
Andy's edits 23:08, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Having closed an MFD for User:Cats & dogs forever/Sandbox/Secret page as delete I am trying to delete it, but (for several hours now) whenever I try I get a message saying "Our servers are currently experiencing a technical problem" with an error message like:
Request: GET http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=User:Cats_%26_dogs_forever/Sandbox/Secret_page&action=delete&wpReason=%5B%5BWikipedia%3AMiscellany+for+deletion%2FUser%3ACats+%26amp%3B+dogs+forever%2FSandbox%2FSecret+page%5D%5D, from 79.78.22.204 via knsq23.knams.wikimedia.org (squid/2.7.STABLE6) to ()
Error: ERR_ACCESS_DENIED, errno [No Error] at Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:45:12 GMT
Windows XP SP3, Firefox 3.5.11
JohnCD ( talk) 20:54, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
Currently, large rangeblocks are sometimes used against persistent, banned vandals that rapidly change IP addresses. Some of these long term abusers have caused hundreds of thousands of IP addresses to be blocked for extended periods of time, potentially preventing many new users from ever contributing. Is there any possibility of developing a new system for IP and unconfirmed users analogous to pending changes? In this system, new IP's and unconfirmed users from an IP range used by a dynamic IP vandal would be classified as "provisional users," whose edits would require approval by a reviewer before they were visible to the general community. Users who had their edits marked as vandalism by a the reviewers could be blocked by an automated process to prevent increased workload on administrators. This way, innocent new contributors would be less impacted by the actions of a few vandals. VQuakr ( talk) 03:33, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
How do I keep the items which are absolute in my template, in the template? In other words, when I use absolute in a template, then use that template on another page, how do I keep the absolute elements in the template.
Relative is much harder to use, as each new item added effects those items around it.
Thanks in advance! I hope this question is clear...
Adamtheclown ( talk) 06:14, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
{{PAGENAME}}
etc.--
Patrick (
talk) 23:12, 3 August 2010 (UTC)I looked through my contributions and clicked on this topic, and replied to it.
But in my contributions, this is the address where the reply went, even though the above topic is still on the reference desk. What's going on? Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 20:34, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
I see that 769 dead links to the US State Department got archived; if anyone is ever interested enough to fire up a project to fix these, please drop a note on my talk page as I don't normally have the pump on my watchlist. I left a note at WT:WikiProject United States Government as well. -- CliffC ( talk) 21:31, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
I logged in yesterday and clicked on the link to my watchlist. But instead of taking me to my watchlist a screen came up that said "you must be logged in to view your watchlist," even though I had logged in. So I clicked the link to log in, and suddenly, without typing in anything, I was logged in again. This happened to me twice yesterday. What's going on? The Raptor Let's talk/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 23:28, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
It's been working fine for me, too. Wonder if it's been fixed? The Raptor You rang?/ My mistakes; I mean, er, contributions 14:36, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
after the first time this appeared I didn't save when I got an edit conflict like this one. I copied the thing I wrote from the diff and re-added it to the section instead. Kayau Voting IS evil 08:58, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
I've started seeing this weird bug occasionally: two entries in the References section have the same number. In the screenshot at right, the 14 refs are numbered 1–13 with two different #8 listed. After clicking various intra-page links for a while, the displayed eventually heals back to a proper 1–14 consecutive list. The numbering in the article itself and the crosslinks to/from the footnotes are correct (i.e., even when the bug is visible, the [number] inline marks are properly numbered and go to the "correct" (matched, and what would be that number if the reflist were consecutive) item. For example, in the screenshot, there is a #14 in the Godwin's law section, that links to ref #13. DMacks ( talk) 18:11, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
If this is a FAQ please excuse me (and please provide a reference) but none of my search efforts have turned up an answer.
From the looks of it, the table classes sortable and autocollapse don't seem to work together. I can make a table sortable, I can make a table collapsible, I can make a table both sortable and collapsable, but no matter what I try I can't make a table sortable and autocollapsible. Is this a bug, a deliberate feature or am I doing something wrong? In case it matters (I deem it unlikely to be a browser/OS issue, but you never know): I'm using Opera 10.10 for Linux through Linux emulation on FreeBSD. Skysmurf ( talk) 02:59, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
collapsed
and autocollapse
, the latter only works if there are 2 or more collapsible tables on the page. —
AlexSm 03:49, 4 August 2010 (UTC)Almost every time I try to edit a page, glitches in the text show up after I'm finished. These glitches randomly change bits of text throughout the article, such as "Metastasis" becoming "Metast9 GM" or "Metas<s��s" and "security cameras" becoming "securitawaymeras". (Here's an example: [14].) It usually happens in areas of the article no where near the place I was actually editing. It never happens in the preview of the edit, only after I save the page. Using the sandbox first really doesn't help because even if I can correct the errors there, more will just appear when I go to the article itself. I have no idea why this is happening, and I even tried using a different web browser. (I was using Google Chrome before, and am now using Firefox, and nothing has changed.) My operating system is Windows Vista. Tesseract-7 ( talk) 06:25, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Is there a way to enlarge the text which appears in the editor while editing? Maybe adding something in my own CCS page? What about choosing the font that appears in the editor while editing? -- Mahmudmasri ( talk) 16:53, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
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Example: International recognition of Kosovo is at the edge of max number of templates/article. Most of them are from references. A naive solution is to convert them. How? Materialscientist ( talk) 10:05, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Right. This problem is intrinsic to many large WP articles. Many of them are also relatively important, but are really difficult to edit (some give wikimedia crash windows). That is why posting here. Country flags and references eat up most templates. Stripping flags would make some articles ugly (changing to non-templated flags?). Non-templated refs don't harm anything, but there are hundreds of them, that requires some automated solution. Materialscientist ( talk) 12:34, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Created importScript("User:Smith609/toolbox.js") some days ago on a modern.js It did not create a widget on my toolbox. I also tried it with single quotation marks importScript('User:Smith609/toolbox.js') and it still did nothing. Left a talk page message for Smith609 several days ago, but have had no response. I have Firefox 3.6.8 and my Java 6.0.140.8 plug-ins are enabled. It is the same issue if I use my IE 8.0.6001.18702 Can anybody offer some insight? Maile66 ( talk) 19:46, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
Got an error message that might mean something, when I click on the grayed out Custom regex: "Custom is not defined Javascript:custom()" -- Maile66 ( talk) 12:35, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
More of the Error Console's error code message. I do not use Google Chrome, if this is what it's referring to. Mean anything to anybody?: Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIWebProgress.removeProgressListener]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/bindings/browser.xml :: removeProgressListener :: line 394" data: no] Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE) [nsIWebNavigation.loadURI]" nsresult: "0x80070057 (NS_ERROR_ILLEGAL_VALUE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://global/content/viewSource.js :: viewSource :: line 221" data: no] -- Maile66 ( talk) 20:26, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Green_Bay-Titirangi_United was recently moved from Green Bay/Titirangi. Now while the talk page it is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Green_Bay-Titirangi_United and displays "Talk:Green Bay-Titirangi United" as the heading, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Green_Bay-Titirangi_United gives a heading of "Green Bay/Titirangi". (no sign of redirect message and address bar still shows Green Bay-Titirangi United). diff at http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Green_Bay-Titirangi_United&diff=377255908&oldid=377255849 shows this to be the last diff, as does oldID: http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Green_Bay-Titirangi_United&oldid=377255908 . History shows another edit http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Green_Bay-Titirangi_United&diff=377255909&oldid=377255908 which has an even later diff which when you go t onext edit seems to go back to the previous "move" edit. I've cleared my cache, restarted firefox, screwed up my lip and held my head at a 37.5degree tilt and it still doesn't want to behave itself. Is it just me or is someone else seeing this?--ClubOranje T 09:18, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Has anyone seen this [15]? I had to accept my own revisions (see page history)? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:13, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes, a section heading will have a note, explaining that "article foo links to here" or "redirect foo links to here", so that editors don't accidentally break incoming links when they change the wording of the heading.
e.g. something like: == History <!-- the redirect [History of foo] links to this section --> ==
Is this practice described or recommended anywhere? I can't find examples, but I'm sure I've seen it in action, somewhere... Thanks. -- Quiddity ( talk) 20:19, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
How do we best achieve the reverse of this, for {main} links? - We desire a system that is able to list which articles are using {{ Main}} to link to the target-article.
e.g.
Alphabet#History includes the template {{
Main|History of the alphabet}}
, but we wish to know how many other articles also include it.
Another editor has proposed a slightly cumbersome method at VPR, and hence I'm wondering if there is a more elegant solution. (Note: manually searching for the exact text doesn't seem to work at all [16], however an automated method is what we're requesting...). Thanks. -- Quiddity ( talk) 21:24, 5 August 2010 (UTC)