User talk:Bduke/Workshop

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Contents 1 Templates 2 Showing molecules with Jmol in Wikipedia pages 2.1 This would have to be inserted in the headers of the page 2.2 This would then need to be inserted in the body of the page 2.3 Some links in comment I put on WP:Chemistry talk 3 International Travel 4 Jimbo's call re userboxes

[edit] Templates

• User_talk:Bduke/Workshop/Template:TSAUSbystate - now installed as Template:Scouts Australia States.
• User:Bduke/workshop/Template:SCanbyprov - now a redirect to Template:Scouts Canada Provinces.
• User:Bduke/workshop/Template:TSAUKbydiv - now a redirect to Template:Scouts UK Counties.
• Template:University of Melbourne Colleges.
• Template:University of Sydney Colleges.

Image:Qs-logo-gradient.jpg needs replacing by a non-copyright image of the Queen's Scout badge. Image:Scoutsgreengoldnoscroll.png is used as a stop-gap.

[edit] Showing molecules with Jmol in Wikipedia pages

This is a "what if" idea. Jmol can show molecular images which can be rotated and modified by the user using a mouse. It is great way to display images of molecules in web pages. Could it be done in Wikipedia pages?

[edit] This would have to be inserted in the headers of the page

<script src="../../jmol/Jmol.js"></script> <!-- REQUIRED -->

Note relative path to Jmol.js.

[edit] This would then need to be inserted in the body of the page

<form>

<center>

<table><tr><td>

<script>

jmolInitialize("../../jmol"); // REQUIRED

jmolSetAppletColor("skyblue");

jmolApplet(250, "load data/ethane_e.pdb");

jmolBr();

</script>

</td><td>

             

</td><td>

<script>

jmolSetAppletColor("palegreen");

jmolApplet(250, "load data/ethane_s.pdb");

jmolBr();

</script>

</td></tr></table>

</center>

</form>

Note "data/ethane_e.pdb" is a path from the server pages base to the file "ethane_e.pdb", which contains the molecular coordinates in a particular format (the PDB - Protein Data Base format).

This shows two images side by side in a table. Probably only one at a time would be needed and possibly not in a table is what is required. Thus what is really needed may just be something like this:-

<script>

jmolInitialize("../../jmol"); // REQUIRED

jmolSetAppletColor("palegreen");

jmolApplet(250, "load data/ethane_s.pdb");

jmolBr();

</script>

[edit] Some links in comment I put on WP:Chemistry talk

Something has been done to put Jmol into MediaWiki, but it is not that recent. I'll try to follow it up in a couple of weeks after a Conference in Sydney next week. See MediaWiki article and the link there to Folding@Home article. This link shows that the Jmol developer, Miguel, is interested in it and more recently. There is also this --Bduke 23:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] International Travel

Just playing - may add to User page.

	Travel - alphabetical
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[edit] Jimbo's call re userboxes

From User talk:Jimbo Wales

I wonder if you might consider... I wonder if you might consider simply removing your political/religious/etc. userboxes and asking others to do the same. This seems to me to be the best way to quickly and easily end the userbox wars. Userboxes of a political or, more broadly, polemical, nature are bad for the project. They are attractive to the wrong kinds of people, and they give visitors the wrong idea of what it means to be a Wikipedian. I think rather than us having to go through a mass deletion (which is what is likely to happen if the userbox fad doesn't go away), it will be better to simply change the culture, one person at a time. Will you help me?--Jimbo Wales 10:53, 21 January 2006 (UTC)