User talk:TheJosh

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[edit] Thanks :)

Thanks for your work on the Template:Infobox Town AU - I was sort of hoping someone would know better than me how to make it look nice and tidy, but within one day is fantastic. (And just noticed your comment on my talk page - yeah that's cool!) Orderinchaos78 18:07, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

Fair point - just modified it on all pages that hadn't already been. I think the problem is that I was using a template based on one of the early pages to create the new ones - all sorted now Orderinchaos78 07:24, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Looks good, although the location ones should probably still be within the main one as they're part of the "snapshot" the infobox offers first-up visitors. Just my thoughts. Orderinchaos78 21:24, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads-up! Wow, that came out of nowhere. Orderinchaos78 ^(t|c) 03:15, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know. I am just a bit busy right now to contrinbute meaningfully byt the talk discussion looked well structured. Regards--Golden Wattle ^talk 10:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Ug! The founder of Wikipedia made LOST wikia. I dont understand there logic -Iron Chef 17:45, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Australian Place

That's cool - I was actually doing it for a completely different reason (I'm actually trying to move some stuff from the long-deprecated and now limping Perth template onto Australian Suburb for future bot conversion) and noticed there's literally under 20 using Australian Suburb, so it's a quick business changing those then migrating some of the Perth suburban ones across. (Some also use a yukky manual one, esp in NSW) Orderinchaos78 ^(t|c) 07:16, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, some of them have a "bring your own wood" approach to infobox building. :S I will be just converting those to Australian Suburb anyway so they'll be in just one standard form for future conversion. Good point re Perth. I'll do any *new* ones I write for perth in Australian Suburb though to reduce the work for later as thanks to HiddenStructure being completely disabled, the optional colour bar thingies up the top are breaking it and I had to comment them out.

Doesn't look like anyone has bothered with your bot approval?!? Frustrating. Is there anyway to bump them along, 'specially now that you have added the obsolete tag to all the templates?SauliH 08:41, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Real quicky

Good work with the template. (Edit: Argh, already addressed, just wasn't in print version! :)) (t|c) 10:28, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Another quicky - For some reason one or two of your recent changes changed < to &lt, > to &gt and " to &quot ... Orderinchaos78 ^(t|c) 11:24, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Thought so, that's why I let you know ASAP... sorry if it sounded terse, I was just trying to push it out quickly :) Orderinchaos78 ^(t|c) 11:40, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Blank fields

The work you are doing on the template is excellent. I think blank fields should be left in when it is added to articles so that data can be added later more easily. I saw the update to Captains Flat, NSW. Regards--Golden Wattle ^talk 18:50, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi what I was referring to was in this edit you removed some fields. I realise you are doing it by hand, but the suggestion I have is that the info box has all fields present in an article even if many of them are not filled out at present. Thus am hoping to see all fields as per Template:Infobox Australian Place/Blank in articles but say at Littlehampton, South Australia or Captains Flat that isn't the case. I guess this is what a bot can do but by hand it is too tedious. Happy to help if I can but a bot seems to be the answer and hence I will wait and hope for its approval. Regards--Golden Wattle ^talk 21:40, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

You are doing a great job and I didn't mean to sound critical. If they were mistakes rather than intentional no problems. Bots don't get tired so I am hoping it will get approved - there are an awful lot of places out there to be migrated. Regards--Golden Wattle ^talk 22:02, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] In recognition

		The Working Man's Barnstar
		For your contribution and role as a "driving force" in getting the Template:Infobox Australian Place going from beginning to end. Keep up the excellent work! Orderinchaos78 ^(t\|c) 00:52, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Excellent work. Thoroughly deserved. ◄§ĉҺɑʀκs► 07:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your fine contribution in seeing the Infobox Australian Place Template through from idea to actuality. SauliH 00:16, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Locator map

TheJosh, I posted the following to the template talk page but was usure if you've seen it: Are there any plans to implement a facilty where a locator dot is placed on the locator map according to latitude/longitude values? Like {{Infobox protected area of Australia}} (eg. Organ Pipes National Park). Even better is {{Infobox Indian urban area}} (eg. Mumbai) which as a label also. — Moondyne 14:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC) — Moondyne 05:33, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Bot - talk page messages

Hi - I'd just like to say thanks for the talk page messages the bot is leaving about info that has been not included in the translation. It is really useful. Regards--Golden Wattle ^talk 20:58, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wodonga, Victoria

Just so you know, TheJoshBot replaced the & with a " in Ovens & Murray Football League on the Wodonga, Victoria page, creating a red link. I've fixed it on that aritlce, but it might be doing the same in other places. Blarneytherinosaur talk 02:18, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Superimposed dot on Adelaide map

Ahh, the last change for the red dot made Adelaide sit on the border of VIC and SA. Not sure if the co-ord's are incorrect, or it is my computer.

Same with Wistow, South Australia SauliH 04:44, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Now Adelaide has been relocated to Robe! Also see my note at my talk page SauliH 05:14, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Bot - talk page messages again

Hi these don't seem to be always happening now - see for example [1] but no corresponding edit about the historic populations, river and railway. Another way to do it may be to leave the fields at the end which are not blank in comment tags - eg for Avoca

--Golden Wattle ^talk 23:59, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jellybeans

You have been awarded these Jelly Beans from User:-The Doctor- I hope you enjoy these Jelly Beans.

Here are some Jelly Beans for you.. I love Jellybeans as they have sugar in them and most people love sugar.. But on the other hand just recieving somthing from somone else just makes you happy and also just giving this to you makes me happy.. I hope to spread the Jellybeans all over Wikipedia so here you can have this lot.. I hope you enjoy these Jelly Beans.. (I Like the Lime ones)

Editors need a bit of a Sugar Hype too..

An Apple a day keeps -The Doctor- Away.. Or does it! ^{(talk)(contribs)} 02:20, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Template help

I saw you were in the category "Users who understand ParserFunctions" and was wondering if you could take a look at this and let me know if there was a way to make the rows ignore each other. In other words, the text won't take up two lines when there is enough space in the row, even if the other lines have long text. --blm07 01:03, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

This is hard to explain, so I've put an example on my talk page. Notice when there is long text in one row, it effects the other rows, causing the text to take up more than one row. What I'd like is to make it so the rows ignore each other and use all of the empty space. I'm not sure its possible. --blm07 05:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Hey, a friend helped me figure it out, he did this and it works for what I need.

{{#if: {{{Park 1|<noinclude>-</noinclude>}}} | {{!}} colspan=2 {{!}} <span style="float: left"> '''{{{Park 1|''no park specified''}}}''' </span> <span style="float: right"> {{{Park 1 Opening|''opening date unknown''}}} </span> --blm07 06:27, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:RFBOT

Your recent bot approvals request has been approved. Please see the request page for details. When the bot flag is set it will show up in this log. -- RM 19:00, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Hi. Per Ram-Man's final approval [2], I've granted a bot flag to your bot. Cheers, Redux 16:06, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Image sizing

G'day TheJosh. I've just seen the JoshBot's version of the Town of Victoria Park info-box. There may be a problem lurking in the JoshBot with image sizing, 'cos it appears to not apply any. I noticed it 'cos I made the locator maps for the Perth municipalities, which were being shown as reduced or thumbnails in the old info-boxes. It's possibly my fault, 'cos I didn't care about anything except a not-too-big, not-too-small size in the originals. But anyway, if there are large images, then the info-box could become rather obese fairly quickly... I would suggest that the JoshBot impose a 300px default size so surprises aren't unpleasant :) Gordon | Talk, 13:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Consider me enlightened -- I didn't bother to chase down the template coding, so I didn't know about the default image widths as they don't show up on the edit page. Gordon | Talk, 13:30, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] IAP

Someone made a heap of changes last night to IAP which screwed it up - I reverted them but might be worth trying to figure out what they were trying to do as they appear to be a good faith user. Oh and BTW thanks for the barnstar!

I'm a bit tired this morning - our government just started daylight saving for a 3 year trial and this is the first day of it. Orderinchaos78 00:05, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use image removed from User:TheJoshBot

I've removed Bender.png from TheJoshBot's user page. I'm sorry, but according to Wikipedia's fair use policy, fair use images can only be used in the Main namespace. If you have any questions or concerns, ask at my Talk page. --Slowking Man 13:03, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] typo in TheJoshBot talk page message

"This update has been automatically preformed" should be "This update has been automatically performed" - the typo is in the word "performed". Graham87 07:00, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Whinge

Why can't Wikipedia have a programming language for templates? I can see the politics one I want to do getting very messy very quickly - the mockup (with no code whatsoever) is at User:Orderinchaos78/Australian Politics Box - ideally the process would be:

switch on entry from, say, "ALP" or "LIB" to the correct value ("[[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] with the correct coloured box).
sort by percent in descending order
print according to one of two formats depending on what option is specified (one is the table, the other displays on one line so you can pile them easily)

The way it's looking one will still have to put them to the template in the correct order, and 5 separate switch operations will be necessary. Thought I'd mention it to you in case you can see something blindingly obvious that I'm missing here. :) Orderinchaos78 13:40, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

Sounds cool! BTW - have a look at User_talk:Scharks#Quick_request_for_help - I've been trying to get a template to work, with near-complete, but not complete enough, success. I'm starting to think my problems are caused by a mediawiki bug or something. Orderinchaos78 12:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Perfect! Thanks heaps for that :) Orderinchaos78 12:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Now at {{Australian Politics Suburb}}. Now the fun begins - trying to find the damn things wherever they may be in their ugly manual form :@ Orderinchaos78 14:16, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Enjoy your break!

Hi, hope you have a great time whatever you're doing / wherever you're going! Look forward to seeing you around again soon - and if you need any help getting your proposed Wikiproject set up, I'd be happy to volunteer. We've just gotten Wikiproject Western Australia up and running in the last week or so, it's been a learning curve the whole way! Orderinchaos78 12:19, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] oops

joshbot seems to have made a bit of a mess of Canberra suburbs by transposing the suburb navigation box east to west amongst others. Examples I've already fixed include Macquarie, Weetangera, Page. 59.167.63.205 22:38, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes

Hi there. I've finally gotten around to starting up Wikipedia:WikiProject Infoboxes. The project page itself is still pretty bare, but at least we now have a central discussion point for this sort of work. Please join! - 52 Pickup 13:56, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Automation department

Hiya Josh. We've just set up an automation department at the WikiProject Australia, and as you're someone who has experience in bot operation, I thought I'd invite you to take a look and see if you might be interested in listing yourself as a participant for any future tasks we might have. Thanks,--cj | talk 00:35, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:TemplateObsolete

Hello. I've come across your Template:TemplateObsolete, as well as Category:Obsolete templates and Category:Pages using obsolete templates. I've redirected Template:TemplateObsolete to Template:Tdeprecated, as that does the same job and is much more commonly used. It seems rather pointless to me to have multiple templates doing exactly the same job. If you disagree with this, please let me know why. Also, I would like to tag the categories for speedy deletion as unused. Do you have any problem with this? Thanks. Mike Peel 20:53, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:Film infoboxes

I put the request on the page to see if anyone was interested in helping add the infobox our project has already developed. Our project is attempting to put the {{infobox film}} on all film articles and I wanted to see if any members of an infobox project where interested in helping to add them to our articles that don't have one. Our infobox is already modified as we want it, but we need users to help assist in the backlog. It is not really a formal request, just an offer to anyone who is interested in helping. If your project is solely for developing infoboxes and improving the box itself, my apologies. Let me know if you want me to clarify further. --Nehrams2020 03:56, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Using Templates

I enjoy your userbox list — I took some of them for my own!

I recently did some major editing on the Infobox U.S. County template, putting in the 50-state switch statement so that the US map with the state highlighted would automatically show up correctly. This got me to thinking that someone else somewhere may want to use a state-to-abbreviation switch statement, so maybe I should create a template that simply displays a state abbreviation when a state name is passed in. This seems like it could be "reusable code" that someone else may need at some point, but I don't see a precedent for such a thing. Do you feel like the proposed template is a good idea? Does this fall within any guidelines? Or have I lost you altogether? Let me know!

Thanks timneu22 (talk • contribs) /Timneu22 02:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

(your response) Hey, I dont think you should create a state name->template thingo, because that will be nearly pointless. It be flexible it would take up more space than a switch statement. Better is to educated people on the use of the switch statement. --TheJosh 02:34, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

OK, not a problem. However, I'm just curious in general: are there any templates used as functions? I don't see any precedent for it, but it seems like it might be really necessary. My proposed template would have been nothing more than a switch showing the State Name based on the State Abreviation (or vice versa)... I haven't seen anything like this on Wikipedia but I have created a few for my internal wiki at work. Thanks again timneu22 (talk • contribs) /Timneu22 23:48, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another template question

Here's one I hadn't considered. Can you tell me if this is possible?

In a template, I have a variable named {{{person}}}. I want the following to happen:

if the user creates the page with {{{person}}} = [[Michael Jordan]], just use {{{person}}}
if the user creates the page with {{{person}}} = Michael Jordan, render the page as [[{{{person}}}]]

Is this doable? /Timneu22 13:09, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Devils Elbow, South Australia

FYI, ive redirected this page because of lack of content ...maelgwn talk 11:20, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup on 23rd April 2007

Hi Josh,

Apologies if you're already aware of this, but I'd like to let you know that the second Adelaide Meetup will take place on Monday 23rd of April at ZUMA Caffe, 56 Gouger Street, Adelaide. The meeting is at 7:30am for breakfast with Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales. Please see Wikipedia:Meetup/Adelaide/Meetup 2 for more details and indicate if you might attend.

Thanks,–cj | talk 13:56, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
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