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Contents 1 Ryanair 2 Ryanair graph 3 Copy/Paste moves 4 Invitation 5 Edit buttons 6 Extra edit buttons problems 7 Edit buttons help 8 Articles you might like to edit, from SuggestBot 9 Thank you 10 Aneurin 11 My Elton John revert error 12 Re:Vandal report for 217.33.207.195 13 VandalProof 1.2 Now Available 14 Italian cuisine 15 Extra edit buttons (from the village pump) 16 Template "Meals" 17 about the deletion in Idealism 18 extra buttons 19 Problems with Image:Times New Roman versus Georgia.svg 20 Ryde Secondary College and VandalProof 21 ultraviolet vandalism 22 MediaWiki:Edittools 23 Award 24 My latest idea for the extra edit buttons 24.1 Final report 24.2 XEB Development version 25 Extra edit buttons 25.1 Support 26 Saw you used my AWB spellchecker, thought I should send you this message 27 Thankyou 28 Windows 95 29 The edit summary 30 Jason Shand Vandilism early September 31 Extra buttons 32 User:MarkS/Extra edit buttons/dev2.js 33 Button suggestion

[edit] Ryanair

Nice graph - thanks. --CGorman 21:26, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Ryanair graph

What I meant when I said it was easier for editing was it removes all the code required to produce the graph which can be confusing to newbies. While yes, it is harder to change, the data isn't too much so wouldn't take long to enter into excel (the whole graph and screenshot took me less than 5 mins to make). Also, this will only change yearly (won't it?!) so it doesn't need updating very often. The old graph was good, but I felt my one just a) looked a bit nicer (kudos to the excel team) and b) was better as a trend graph. Thanks. JOHN COLLISON | (Ludraman) 15:37, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Copy/Paste moves

Hey there. I'm just fixing the Surrey East (UK Parliament constituency) article after a WP:RM request. I noticed you moved the article by copy and pasting it, something we should always avoid in order to adhere to the GFDL. If a move needs to be done in the future please use the move button or ask at WP:RM. Your intentions were obviously to help though, so please don't take this the wrong way. Cheers, violet/riga (t) 14:48, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Invitation

Hi MarkS, you made a nice timeline some time ago. I would like to invite you to read and comment on my project proposal for a Grand Unified Timeline of Human History. Erik Zachte 8 July 2005 23:21 (UTC)

[edit] Edit buttons

Feel free to use the code as you wish. I stole it from the Hebrew Wikipedia :) — ₀₉₁₈^BRIAN • 2006-03-10 14:06

[edit] Extra edit buttons problems

Hello! Thanks for your extra edit buttons - however, a recent change to the standard edit buttons seems to have introduced problems. Now, with your extra buttons installed, the normal buttons don't work anymore. See e.g. the Village pump and Brion's talk. I wonder if you have any idea as to why this is so? I'd hate to forgo use of your buttons, as I've grown to appreciate them very much. Thanks, Sandstein 05:22, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Edit buttons help

I'm having a hard time installing the tool. Can you please help me out? Thanks! --Evan Robidoux 01:47, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Thank you

Thanks for the award ! Appreciated. Travelbird 19:01, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you very much for helping me. Cheers. SovietComrade

[edit] Aneurin

He did not live in Wales, nor write about Wales, nor in Welsh (Old Brythonic was all over Britain, Old Welsh was a dialect of it). 87.90.203.65 20:41, 11 May 2006 (UTC) When I read the article I find

• he was Welsh (I cant agree)
• although he lived in the North and wrote about princes of the North (I do agree).

It seems a bit of a contradiction.

[edit] My Elton John revert error

Hello. Thanks for the notice on my talk page, but what actually occurred was that, while I was reverting the vandalism from user 58.178.205.185, I clicked on the wrong version to revert to. My mistake. Kaijan 10:01, 16 May 2006 (UTC) (Wikipedian since 2003)

[edit] Re:Vandal report for 217.33.207.195

• 217.33.207.195 (talk • contribs • logs • block user • block log)

If you look at the block log (link above) you can see that this particular IP is used by an admin. There is also a notice to this effect on its talk page. So blocking it would probably do more hard than good. I do block school IPs when it seems like there is less chance of collatoral damage. "the only downside is that legitimate users would need to register as a user" - if only... Blocking the IP also blocks all registered users using that IP. See this to join the list of people wanting this changed (I think it will be changed, it just needs Rob, a developer to implement it). Hope that answers your question. Petros471 11:43, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] VandalProof 1.2 Now Available

[edit] Italian cuisine

Hi - thanks. I'm new to popups so I am checking manually as well but I must have missed that. I'll be more careful - thanks for letting me know. Sophia 12:51, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

I would too but I'm a Mac user. Sophia 12:59, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Extra edit buttons (from the village pump)

(Also posted at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Edit buttons not working in Firefox.)

With the new code, adding extra edit buttons is very simple. You can see an example at User:Ilmari Karonen/editbutton user.js. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 13:45, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template "Meals"

Thanks for the help. skorpion 10:15, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] about the deletion in Idealism

Hi, I notice that you deleted lots of content in Idealism on June 3. The deleted content has been restored. I assume that you made this mistake unintentionally. Please be cautious in the future. Thank you for your contribution. --Neo-Jay 20:01, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for pointing that out that I had deleted part of the content in this article. Wasn't deliberate. Have had the occasional trouble with only the first part of some articles loading. I presume only the first part loaded and I didn't notice because the edit was at the top of the page. Thanks for fixing it. (copy of text placed on Neo-Jay's talk page). --MarkS (talk) 20:07, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

You are welcome. Orz --Neo-Jay 20:10, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] extra buttons

for some reason, it isn't working in my monobook. Can you help me? Thetruthbelow 19:31, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

NEver mind I fixed it. Thetruthbelow 19:33, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Problems with Image:Times New Roman versus Georgia.svg

Thanks for fixing up the SVG trouble I had, which I posted on the Village Pump. But, now I have another one: Image:Times New Roman versus Georgia.svg. The basic idea is to have a Times New Roman alphabet over a Georgia alphabet. (See Image:TNR-Georgia.png.) This time, the Georgia alphabet won't appear and the Times New Roman is covered in black as last time. Maybe, I'm saving the file wrong. Do you save it in "Inkscape SVG" or "Plain SVG"? Thank you. —Black and White (_TALK^CONTRIBS) 21:01, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Reply copied from User_talk:Black and White

I have had a long play with this and come up with something that works. You might want to adjust the final size of the Georgia font to get the two fonts to line up exactly.

I am not entirely happy with my solution, because I do not know why the new version is working and the old wasn't. The original did have a rectangle object in the XML which seemed to cover all the text. I removed this in the XML editor but it still didn't work. I also noted that the Georgia text was actually two parts (the letter "a" and the rest of the text); changing this made no difference. In the end I removed all your original text and put new text in. This seemed to fix it. The only thing I can see is that the Inkscape said the original text was "linked flowed text" whilst the new text is just "text". I do not know what the difference is.

There are a couple of other things I discovered:

• Whilst inkscape displayed the original correctly neither Wikipeida (which seems to convert it to PNG), Internet Explorer (opening the file directly from my local disk) or GIMP (which converts it to a bitmap) seemed to be able to display it correctly. Suggesting Inkscape might be the culprit (or at least doing something fancy not supported elsewhere).
• The new version looks about right in Wikipedia (with both fonts being the same length). However, in Inkscape the line of Georgia text is distinctly longer. This time the problem looks to be Wikipedia as opening the file directly in IE or GLIPS Graffiti Editor both produce exactly what Inkscape shows.

As Wikipedia seems to be rendering the images to PNG I will try and see if the render engine is available to download. This will at least avoid the need to keep uploading the files to Wikipedia to see if they work.

Finally it doesn't seem to matter whether you use Inkscape SVG or Plain SVG --MarkS (talk) 19:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

UPDATE: Have had a quick look round and text in SVG does seem to be a problem. Batik seems to offer a fairly full SVG implementation and refuses to open the original SVG images because of the flow element. I can't find what Wikipedia is using to convert the images but Batik is mentioned as a possible method to convert from SVG to PNG (which is what Wikipdia seems to do). Looking a W3C there is version 1.1 of SVG which doesn't mention Flowing text. Version 1.2 (which is still draft) does have flowing text. My best guess is that Inkscape has implemented the draft version 1.2 but most other packages haven't. The trick seems to be to draw text in Inkscape either by just clicking where you want the tick (rather than streching out a text box) or drawing the text and selecting Text-Unflow from the menus. Then test it in Batik. --MarkS (talk) 20:35, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ryde Secondary College and VandalProof

You just did a revert on this article to remove vandalism. Thought I would let you know that two vandals were at work at the same time on the article and your revert took it back one revision to an already vandalised article. It needed to go back two revision to get to the clean article. This is a bit of a problem with VandalProof and worth watching for. I often check the previous edit as well if this wasn't made by a logged in user. --MarkS (talk) 10:35, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip and for fixing my mistake. These school articles are such vandalmagnets ! - Peripitus (Talk) 10:40, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] ultraviolet vandalism

In recent months I have been dismayed by the current rash of 'editors' infesting our beloved Wiki. It has become the domain of Little Britain-type fan boys editing from their council offices and dispatching editorial decisions with a godlike hubris. Again, self-styled priests of the faith are deciding what they want people to see. I have no complaint when my editions are adjusted, or sometimes removed if need be, by better qualified people, but the Ultra Violet/Hammer Space fiasco is ramming home the point the Guardian makes that wiki is less and less to be trusted. Most of my contributions remain untouched, merely added to from time to time; However, on some sites, the editors protect theitr subject matter like fanatical temple guardians. If this continues, Wiki will become just another fan site/film buff hideout, for people decorating their club house personal spaces, and the encyclopedia will become just another elitist chat room.

Captain John Lazarus, Bsc Ma.

My additions were correct, Mark. We are trained to render ourselves combat-effective with a broken arm. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.8.190.54 (talk • contribs) .

This comment was added by user after I removing inappropriate edits by this user. See for example [1] which is comment to to fairly new user that fails to state the article it is talking about or [2] which is on the this user's own scrapbook (not talk) page and is nothing to do with the user in general but is a general complaint (put poorly about WIkipeida in general. The disputed Ultraviolet edit is this one [3] which I removed as this is not appropriate in the article. --MarkS (talk) 10:21, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MediaWiki:Edittools

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As you may have noticed, some wikimarkup shortcuts were recently added there, some of which are redundant with existing buttons and some of which are redundant with your buttons. Because I like the editbuttons better than the edittools, I have written some scripts for those edittools that don't have equivalent editbuttons. If you would like to add them to your own Extra editbuttons script, visit User:Ingoolemo/extraextraeditbuttons.js.

Thanks for the good work with the extra buttons by the way. I absolutely love them.

If you have any better ideas for the GIFs I've created for my scripts, feel free to revise them. The files are: , , , and .

By the way, if you don't want to see the wikimarkup section of edittools, add

#edittools_wikimarkup {display:none;}

to User:MarkS/monobook.css. Ingoolemo ^talk 01:41, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the comments. The new shortcuts they have added at the bottom makes the editing interface a little inconsistent. It was okay having just characters at the bottom. However, now they have added markup to the bottom the result is some markup at the top and some markup at the bottom. Just feels confusing to me.

I like your new buttons and have added them into the development version of User:MarkS/Extra edit buttons.

However, the images look a little different to the main buttons. My intention is edit the images to make them look consistent and then upload these new version as a separate version from your originals (they will probably be PNG anyway to ensure consistency with the existing buttons). Once that's done (and tested on IE/FireFox and Opera) I will move it to live. --MarkS (talk) 19:56, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Award

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For your work on scripts, especially the very useful extra edit buttons script, I, Piotrus, present you with the da Vinci Barnstar.Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 20:25, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

Also, can you take a look at my button suggestions at User_talk:Piotrus#My_extra_buttons_suggestions?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 01:36, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Sure, I would. And it's a good idea to 'remove' the normal buttons and replace them with yours, especially if the user could change the order (to be more intuitive) and hide the ones they don't want to (honestly I use less then a third of the original and yours, so most my buttons are useless clutter - and I suspect it's the same for others, too - although of course a button useless to me may be pretty good for sb else).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 16:45, 8 July 2006 (UTC)--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus ^Talk 16:45, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] My latest idea for the extra edit buttons

To: MarkS
CC: Piotrus

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I decided it was best to start a new thread on this topic.

I had an idea for the editbuttons script that may or may not work. See User:Ingoolemo/extraeditbuttons.js for the code and User:Ingoolemo/Extra editbuttons for a correspondence table.

1. I move each editbutton script to a separate subpage of the main script. Each editbutton is assigned a numerical name; currently spanning 1-22.
2. I create a wincbutton function that imports the button script from its numerical page. This allows editors to perform very easy customisation of the order and placement of their buttons. By referencing the correspondence table mentioned above, for example, they can cherrypick the buttons they want and decide which order they want. Because the buttons are referenced numerically, all one needs to do is paste the main editbutton script--easy to do with a template--, then type something as simple as wincbutton('12').
3. The custombutton function allows users to create their own buttons. I don't know if multiple variables are even possible in JavaScript, or if I treated them correctly, but if I did, it will allow Piotr to implement many of his ideas. I include examples below, but note that the following MAY NOT WORK, due to my lack of JavaScript skills:
   • custombutton('blahblah/Button_tl_template.png','Tl','{{tl|','}}','template name')
   • custombutton('blahblah/Button_subst_template.png','Subst','{{subst:','}}','template name')
   • custombutton('blahblah/Button_disambig','Disambig','{{disambiguation}}','','')
   • custombutton('blahblah/Button_welcome_from_Piotrus','Welcome','{{User:Piotrus/w}}','','')
4. I have also developed an advanced linebreak button (User:Ingoolemo/extraeditbuttons.js/6a.js) that allows the user to define clear.
5. I have developed Piotr's advanced references option. First, you click on the 'advanced references' button, which inserts <ref name="Insert reference name. Then, you either click on the 'c' button or the '/' button. The 'c' button allows you to add citation information, and the '/' button allows you to refer to a previous footnote.

Ingoolemo ^talk 03:41, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

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Update: I have not yet tested the custombutton feature, but it seems that my current editbutton design is causing major rendering issues. I will get back to you guys when I have explored the problem further. Ingoolemo ^talk 00:58, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

The rendering issues have disappeared now that I've moved it from a subpage to my main javascript, but I still haven't got them up and running yet. Ingoolemo ^talk 02:21, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

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My previous technique did not work. I have now developed a new system at User:Userscripts/Extra editbuttons/source2.js. Under this system, each button is defined as a function, and the buttons can be activated within a user's javascript by calling each button by its function name. (See User:Ingoolemo/standard.js for an example.)

I have not yet tested the custombutton(s,o,c,t,i) function. Ingoolemo ^talk 21:33, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Final report

I have tried several methods that would allow end-users to alter the order of the buttons (and to cherry-pick them) with more ease. They all failed. The only option—or so it seems to my untrained opinion—is to paste the XEB script (awesome acronym, isn't it?) to a subpage of their own and edit it there.

I still have not tested custombutton(s,o,c,t,i), but I do expect that to work.

I would like to suggest that the XEB code (currently at User:MarkS/extraeditbuttons.js) be moved to User:Userscripts/Extra editbuttons/source.js. While I was doing my experiments, I intended for them to be moved to your namespace, but didn't want to do that until I had permission. It just seems so much more logical to me to have them in a central location.

Mark: thank you for XEB. Piotrus: thank you for getting me thinking about ways to improve it. Ingoolemo ^talk 02:14, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

I also strongly recommend taking a look at some of the differences between the current XEB code and my code at User:Ingoolemo/xeb.js. Ingoolemo ^talk 02:33, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

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I am back (at last). Thanks for trying different ways of altering the code so the order of buttons can be amended.

I have had a play as well and have a method which might work. Broadly if the user defines a variable XEBOrder in their javascript before including the XEB code then this variable will override the standard order. For example: XEBOrder="A,C,E" will not display the standard XEB buttons, instead it will only display buttons A,C and E (in that order).

How does it work? The code first tests to see if XEBOrder has been defined. It it has it takes the user's value. If it hasn't been defined then it creates the variable with the default XEB buttons. It then works through each button in XEBOrder and creates the buttons requested (each button is now in a separate function).

The advantages I see in this method are:

1. For user's who aren't bothered by the button order the XEB script works without any changes and produces a default set of buttons.
2. You can change the order of buttons easily.
3. You can hide buttons you don't want.
4. The XEB script can contain extra non-standard buttons which user's can turn on if they want.
5. The configuration is easy.

The current code is in the dev version of XEB and you can see the use of XEBOrder in my monobook.js. If you want to test it then simply include the dev version of XEB in your monobook rather than the standard version.

This is just a piece of code to test at the moment. Depending of the feedback I might look to:

1. Change the button names from A,B,C,D... to more relevant names
2. Add the extra buttons that have been requested. These might be non-standard buttons (i.e. only show if you use XEBOrder) to stop the toolbar getting too long.
3. Move the code out of my userspace.

Any feedback is welcome. --MarkS (talk) 08:34, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] XEB Development version

I have updated the dev version of XEB. The new version includes:

1. The ability to change the order of the buttons as requested by Piotrus
2. The ability to hide buttons or show 'non-default' buttons.
3. An optional set of buttons for adding references. These buttons are copies of those current in Ingoolemo's XEB script. These extra buttons are optional and only appear if requested by the user.

This new development version is in the form I would like to go live with and should include the main changes that were originally requested. The only thing missing is the other buttons requested by User:Piotrus - these can be added later.

Details (including how to make the extra refernce buttons appear) can be found on the XEB page. I invite your comments before I move the code to the live version. --MarkS (talk) 20:23, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Extra edit buttons

Thank you for the extra edit buttons! Fruggo 09:38, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Great! It may take me few days to get to this, I am at Wikimania, but I just saw something very useful mentioned by Andrea: briefly, she has designed a pop-up box for adding references. She needs help from developers and people like you to update it for the newest MediaWiki, so I thought you may want to get in touch with her; she actually had a button in toolbox for that, and it would be a MAJOR thing in terms of making adding references user-friendly (I'd assume it would become a part of Wikipedia:WYSIWYG announced a Jimbo). Btw, are you on Wikimania?-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 20:38, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Not at Wikimania - too many commitments sadly. Will have a look into the reference popup - thanks for the the tip. --MarkS (talk) 07:26, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

You will have to excuse me for my lack of dev literacy, but I am not sure how should I test the script: should I copy the entire page (save the introduction) and add replace the current stable version at User:Piotrus/monobook.js?-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 19:50, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Answered at: User_talk:Piotrus#Extra_Edit_Buttons_-_Dev_Version

[edit] Support

Hello Mark, I'm from the German Wikipidia, I found your nice collection of edit button only now. (I see in your code your mentioned JavaScript ability is not so very much :-o.) I've copied and converted the toolbar from fr: (all this suggested by de:User:Löschfix to me) for de: /customToolbar.js. And I would do this with your script too, but I'll strong optimizing this (laborious) code, so you will profit from this too. Greeting --Olliminatore 23:30, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

I think the button code in your developers version is not user friendly (XEBOrder="A,B,C...). The code mwCustomEditButtons[mwCustomEditButtons.length] is JavaScript1.0 and very out of date (over 10 years old, I think nobody in the world used such old browser to edit here) use push() for this. What do you think about adding the buttons from fr: ? Okay, no trouble, you could see I'll do that all. --Olliminatore 11:17, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

I've now completted/ optimized your development version with XEBOrder too. Let me know what do you think. --Olliminatore 20:58, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Greetings, It seems now, that the XEB be outdated so an released dev-version is needed (hopefully expected). Thanks. (I've answered your on my talk page too) If your could make a dev-version for all (editing), that would be nice too. --Olliminatore 06:58, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Saw you used my AWB spellchecker, thought I should send you this message

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[edit] Thankyou

Hi, I am Tromsogirl and I've been editing the Jason Shand page with the assistance of Jason, I believe there was some acts of Vandalism on the Jason Shand page yesterday that you reverted back to its origional. Just like to say thankyou for sorting that out. Do you know if the member for the IP Address of the vandalism - 193.195.220.34 has been banned from Editing? or any other information about the IP owner that I could assist Jason with in finding the person responsible as they seem to possibly be responsible for a number of personal attacks out of Wikipedia aswell.

Thanks again for Sorting the Vandalism, Much Appreciated. (Tromsogirl 13:19, 6 September 2006 (UTC))

Thankyou for that information you sent regarding the IP address, The fact its somebody connected to EMAP is encouraging in finding out the responsiblity of the person behind it, Anyway I'll pass on the information to Jason that its somebody connected to EMAP and see what he wants to do next. (Tromsogirl 14:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Windows 95

How do you get all the extra edit buttons? Windows 95 gets none of them and Windows XP only gets the default buttons, and sometimes it takes a long time. The image of the first button seems to be missing today.--Chuck Marean 20:36, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The edit summary

In this edit: [4], where is the cleanup? :) _→AzaToth 14:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jason Shand Vandilism early September

Hello, Id just like to get around to thanking you for the help with the IP tracing in early September regarding the vandalism to the Jason Shand page it was much appreciated. Just to update on from that, I notified Jason about it coming from EMAP and following private discussions the matter has been dealt with Internally at his place of work, and Hopefully there will be no further abuse by those responsible of his page anyway from anybody connected with EMAP. (EditorSH 05:20, 13 October 2006 (UTC))

[edit] Extra buttons

Your change on extra edit buttons last night somehow broke my js at sr: wiki. Before i have one more toolbar under your buttons, and now i don't have it. Can you please help me somehow, or revert your edits and save it to another place. You can see my js here. Thanks. --SasaStefanovic • 14:38, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Ok, i fixed it, i just copy old version of your code to User:Sasa Stefanovic/extraeditbuttons.js and it all works again. --SasaStefanovic • 14:52, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] User:MarkS/Extra edit buttons/dev2.js

I don't know if you know this or not, but this doesn't redirect to your desired location. I don't even think it's possible to redirect pages that have .js at the end of them. So it might be better to blank it that have that there. Regards, — Moe 15:56, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

I suggest asking an active admin to delete it. You can delete the history of those pages somehow. — Moe 20:17, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello, MarkS. I can delete it, but I would prefer seeing a note directly from you before I do so. Alternatively, you may want to try Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion, or contact any admins at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard. Hope this helps. -- PFHLai 00:24, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Button suggestion

I'd love a button that would add the | symbol. now I have to scroll down and take one from the symbols below the edit window - and I use it all the time. Kudos for great work on the script! PS. Is there any progress on how to get rid of the standard buttons and replace them with selection from your toolbar?-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 14:56, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes this function to get rid of the standard buttons is in the german version of XEB. I've posted this function also separate here: Help_talk:Edit_toolbar#How_to_remove_buttons.3F @symbol: May you can typing it with [<]+ [Alt Gr]!? --Olliminatore 16:44, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

That's great, it works for me!-- _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk} 20:27, 31 October 2006 (UTC)