Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive

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This really isn't appropriate to display and may be confusing to some people when they are in fact looking at the current version. What can be done with monobook.css, common.js or one of the other pages (or elsewhere) to make this warning not display on the current version of pages? --Aude (talk) 21:13, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

That is being discussed on MediaWiki talk:Revision-info. It would be hacky to do it that way, and it would be better to submit a request to the devs instead. Prodego ^talk 21:18, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the pointer. Good to know I'm not the only one noticing this and having concerns about the pink box. --Aude (talk) 21:22, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Gif

Im trying to copy and past a .gif file into a powerpoint and its not working. Ive also tried saving the file and inserting it. Please advise.--68.42.172.103 03:27, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

What version of Powerpoint are you using? A bit of Google searching implies that there is not consistent handling of animated GIF files in different versions of Powerpoint. If you are using Powerpoint 2003, this page may be helpful. Mike Dillon 04:46, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MediaWiki:Booksources-isbn

I tried to add a link to ISBN on Special:Book source but the wiki link (i.e. [[International Standard Book Number|ISBN]]) didn't translate into a link, it showed up as [[International Standard Book Number|ISBN]] on the special page. How do I fix this? John Reaves (talk)

Some messages use HTML rather than wikimarkup. Does writing it as <a href="/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number">ISBN</a> work (it might not, some messages use plain text, in which ase a link is impossible)? --ais523 09:53, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

HTML didn't work. John Reaves (talk) 10:03, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

In that case, presumably it's a plain-text message, so the only way to link the word is to request a change in the software. --ais523 11:27, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] hello

i am wondering how to read articles on technical thing

thanks much i am pleased ur support

For technical information about Wikipedia and MediaWiki, Wikipedia:Technical FAQ and the MediaWiki website may be good starting points. --ais523 18:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] having issues with the search function

72.130.163.87 19:29, 19 March 2007 (UTC) well, first of all, this is my first time posting on Wikipedia and I'm not sure if I'm doing some things wrong with posting.

Anyway, something is going on with the search engine because yesterday I was doing multiple word searches and it worked just fine, but today its not even working with two words. I've tried arm bone and then click the search button (pressing enter makes it go to the wiki article) but an error comes up saying: There was a problem with your search. This is probably temporary; try again in a few moments, or you can search Wikipedia through an external search service

I've tried a couple different two word searches, and sometimes it doesn't work with some one word searches. I don't know whats going on here because it was working just fine yesterday.

(self edit) Forgot to mention that I did clear cookies and cleared internet cache and it didn't solve it.

Sometimes the search is down. It is down for all users, not just you. It will be back soon. Please note that the {{helpme}} tag is for use on your personal talk page, not discussion pages.—WAvegetarian (talk) 23:47, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

doh, didn't know that it was suppoused to be for the personal talk page. Sometimes the search works ok sometimes it doesn't, although I can't find any other posts talking about this search engine issue here. Anyways, thanks.

[edit] Test Templates and SandBot

Sandbot is constantly resetting a template change that needs a thorough test before updating the actual templates. An email last week (plus latest link diff) to user:AllyUnion has brought no clarity (answer) on why things disappear while work is in progress. The logs show a manual request has been placed, which flys in the face of the {{Inuse}} template, and the short time interval involved. Is there any way to block or shut this thing down for a while? OR AS I'M CURRENTLY SUSPECING... Is it wiping templates when the request is for the editing trial pages--a sort of shotgun effect, as it were? It really seems to not be running on a schedule, but kicks you in the gut when you're least expecting it. // FrankB 21:02, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

{{X5}} is a sandbox, which is for short-lived experiments. If someone is repeatedly disturbing your editing there (the resets seem to be manual; someone is following the link given in Sandbot's edit message), perhaps you would prefer to experiment in your own userspace? E.g. at User:Fabartus/Sandbox? -- Eugène van der Pijll 22:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

The point is some things need to be in template space, which is why X0-X9 had been established. These aren't experiments, but consolidations of seven templates down to one or two, and long overdue. I don't think anyone is directly asking for that page (or last week, pages) to be wiped, but that it's a side-effect. The use is short term... this is happening sometimes within 20 minutes of the last change... a ridiculously short time. // FrankB 22:33, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Just work on the template in a different place. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 22:37, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Nothing needs to be in the template space, just use a user subpage. Prodego ^talk 22:45, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, just use {{User:Fabartus/Sandbox}} like you would a regular template. mattbr 22:54, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] .svg map not rendering

Does someone know how to get Image:India annual rainfall map en.svg do display? Nichalp confirmed that this map was not displaying for him either. This is what I'm seeing currently. Thanks. Saravask 13:39, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Wow, that thumbnail gave me the strangest Squid error message I've ever seen.

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/India_annual_rainfall_map_en.svg/300px-India_annual_rainfall_map_en.svg.png

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After a reload, I got a completely transparent 300x339 image (generated at 20 Mar 2007 00:33:51 GMT according to the tIME chunk). Purging the image on Commons fixed it. --cesarb 00:41, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. Saravask 02:32, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

SVG's have been rendering weird for a while now. There was some complaint on that here last week. My experience is if you change the size, you can get it to come in and display. Some are partial, and some are just a frame. Definitely needs someone to figure out what's happening with the conversion to PNG or whatever. // FrankB 17:41, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Strange edit

I just got the strangest result whenever I typed in a response to a post on my talk page. After I typed the response which was "Yes, he was indefblocked.", the finished edit was "me" redirecting my talk page to my userpage despite me not typing that at all. [4] Can anyone explain what happened. — Moe 23:30, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Probably not. [cue spooky music] Gracenotes^T § 00:19, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Aliens or hypnotism. :) You must have messed up some how, I don't see how that is possible otherwise. Prodego ^talk 02:36, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Coping with transclusion size limits

Someone posted at Wikipedia:Requested templates asking for help with {{Episode list}}, in particular its use in List of ER episodes. when investigating, I learned of the template transclusion size limit. I popped on over to Template talk:Episode list and it seems others have run across the problem. I'm writing here to ask people's suggestions for working with this. Some options:

1. Increase Wikipedia transclusion limit

   No article changes required

   Increased load on servers, stopgap measure

2. Subst the template into large articles

   Reduce server load, fairly easy

   Template change not reflected in articles

3. Edit the template to minimize markup length

   No article changes required

   Tricky, stopgap measure

4. Break large lists into subpages

   Reduce server load, fairly easy

   Reduces value of the list

What are people's thoughts about this? —dgies^t_c 22:19, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Try the /doc subpage trick first. Here is the current size:

Pre-expand include size: 2045988 bytes
Post-expand include size: 469088 bytes
Template argument size: 669068 bytes
Maximum: 2048000 bytes

--MECU≈talk 22:36, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

• If the post-expand size is the problem here, how about this: break the more algorithmic parts of this template into sub-templates, which are only called if needed. For example,

{{ {{#if:{{{parameter|}}}|nothing|maximage}} }}

• This would mean that {{nothing}} would have to be protected. Server load, not pretty, but it works. Gracenotes^T § 22:37, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

It's not post-expand size that's the issue, it's the pre-expand size. My suggestion is to make a template that is a slimmed-down version of {{Episode list}}, something like {{ER episode}}, and then use much simpler syntax. I'm a pretty good template editor, but honestly I have no idea why the code is so complicated for Template:Episode list, and I can't begin to understand "ParaCheck123" throughout it. --MZMcBride 00:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

ParaCheck123 looks like an extremely cheesy name for a parameter placeholder. It appears as though a simple #if statement would have done well in its stead. Gracenotes^T § 01:16, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

ParaCheck is just a trick used so that changes can be triggered by a parameter being listed, but still left blank. For example, |Image= will trigger the screenshot layout, even if you don't have it filled out. Excluding |Image will switch the template to a no screenshot format. "ParaCheck123" was just something I thought wouldn't be a probable value for any of the variables, so it can really be anything that is not likely to be a value where it's used (Director, episode number, etc). I've suggested that ParaCheck123 be changed to "ʁ", which is also unlikely to be a value for any of those. -- Ned Scott 05:59, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Cleaning up the code is probably going to solve the biggest issues. The #ifeq: is a poor way to do what you want. Right below it where it does {{ #if: {{{Title|}}} | '''"{{{Title}}}"''' }} is much more efficient. Multiply that by the number of times you used it (several dozen) and there's your problem. I believe Gracenotes said they were going to work on the code, but since it's protected, I dunno where. --MECU≈talk 12:53, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

A place holder is required for parameters that are desired but not filled out, but a good many didn't understand that when applying the template. This trick makes it so that if you list the parameter, then it will trigger a column even if you don't fill it out. -- Ned Scott 12:01, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Right, essentially the default value says "don't do anything, no column"; setting the variable at all (even to blank) kicks it over to "do something, create a column"; and actually filling in a non-blank value gives it something to do in that column. Nice trinary result: no, yes, yes-THIS. -- Ben ^TALK/_HIST 02:38, 18 March 2007 (UTC)   (deleted my own stupid suggestion following this, as it would not help your transclusion overhead.)

Ok, so do this: {{#if:{{{blah|}}}||do this}} which means: if nothing, then "do this", else nothing. Or, if "something", then do nothing, else, "do this". Notice the double pipes. After the first pipe means if true, the second means if false. --MECU≈talk 13:44, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Since including a big amount of text is not only a technical problem, but also an editorial problem, the best solution is to avoid the need of trascluding a big amount of text. -- AnyFile 17:18, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Adding contribution link to user pages

I wish there were a contributions link on other users' talk pages. When I'm looking at a user's contribution history, like to look for a pattern of vandalism, I have to open "my contributions" in a new window, copy their IP and paste it in the new window's URL bar. It's a hassle. It'd be a lot easier to have a "User's contributions" link right on their pages. --AW 17:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Try adding this to your user javascript file:

if (wgCanonicalNamespace.indexOf('User') === 0 ) {
  user = wgTitle.split('/')[0];
  addPortletLink('p-tb', '/wiki/Special:Contributions/' + user, user + "'s contributions");
}

Lupin|talk|popups 18:22, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

To my what? --AW 20:01, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

To monobook.js, assuming you are using the monobook skin. But I thought MediaWiki does this for you already? It does for me... Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 20:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know what monobook or mediawiki is, but I guess I'll try --AW 20:08, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Me too. Look under the search box on the left of the screen in the "toolbox", and on every user page you should see a link for "User contributions". --MECU≈talk 20:09, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Oh, never noticed that! Thanks. I guess I can delete that code from the monobook page then? --AW 20:11, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

Yep. BTW: monobook is the default skin for Wikipedia, and Mediawiki is the software Wikipedia runs on. Prodego ^talk 00:42, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

I can not understand what is your request, but if you want to see the User contributions list of an anonymous user, just copy the IP address in the search box and hit the Go button. (see m:Help:Go_button#Special_features) -- AnyFile 17:24, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Finding cities for your country using, UTC, UTC-5 and other timezones per WP:CCT

Can we sort [this list in alphebetical order. I've attempt to make a category but it doesn't appear to have the concensus of the community. The usefull category helped me sort through the cities and make the appropriate corrections. You may find it usefull to peruse cities that link to the different timezones. (ex. Got to UTC-5 and click what links here) There are however, limitations. One is that we can't browse in alphabetical order.

I did try to make a category for cities by UTC timezone but a CfD prevailed and it was removed... taking away a list of 5000+ cities categorized (see my back-up. There was not enough support for such a category.

Many cities currently utilize the {{template:Infobox city}} and have a link to the related UTC timezone. Use this to your benefit. You can find a list of cities by clicking the corresponding UTC timezone. And, if ever you feel like bringing back the category we will need at least 5 to 7 people to support this. GO to my project WP:CCT and start a section to voice your opinion. When we have enough people we'll start the cat. --CyclePat 23:00, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Regarding the alphabetization, on–wiki, as far as I am aware, no. You can use WP:AWB to load the what links here list, and you can then sort this alphabetically and work through them if you want. There is also a list comparer so you can have the timezone what links here list and the infobox what transcludes here list and find which articles are on both lists and use that list how you wish. My other suggestion would be to use a program like Excel, copy and paste the links and sort alphabetically. Hope that helps, mattbr 00:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Hey! Supper dupper! Thank you for the reply and the reminder on my userpage. I'll deffinatelly be checking into it and I'll give you my feedback at this location on how everything went. --CyclePat 18:54, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

If you want to see the work I did check out: User:CyclePat/UTC Timezone/List of places in the UTC-5 timezone. Thank you again. --CyclePat 20:21, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] DXF to SVG or something similar

I have (and I can create) quality DXF drawings that I could contribute with. My guess is that the preferred format for any technical drawing is the SVG format. Can someone confirm this and if so, where can I find a free application to convert DXF to SVG? Thanks in advance for the help. --ChaChaFut 03:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure if Inkscape does it natively yet or not, but a quick google showed some promising tools like this. Good luck! - CHAIRBOY (☎) 16:29, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Do you know if this is freeware? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by ChaChaFut (talk • contribs) 22:28, 16 March 2007 (UTC).

Inkscape is free software and it can save in SVG format. However I do not know if it is able to open DXF file (which I do not know what is it) -- AnyFile 17:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] wpReason and implementation

I propose several changes to all templates in Category:Speedy deletion templates, except for {{db-meta}} and {{db-reason}} and redirects. Namely,

1. The removal of the reasonlink parameter. This has been superseded by a change in {{db-meta}} that was suggested on the talk page.
2. Making the the link to a criterion have a normal font size. E.g., instead of (<small>[[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#G10|CSD G10]]</small>), ([[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion#G10|CSD G10]]). This will make deletion summary... well, well ugly, and it may also be useful in
3. Shortening each criterion link (indicated by 1=value, so the it can easily fit into a deletion reason, if any are not short enough already.

And another one:

1. Encouraging the use of the wpReason parameter for admins, since it makes clearing CAT:CSD a bit easier.

I hope this proposal is sane, or at least makes sense. I would be fine with implementing it myself, iff there is consensus. Gracenotes^T § 16:47, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm sort of against this. - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 20:27, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

It just sounds silly. - Patricknoddy^{TALK (reply here)|HISTORY} 20:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Special:Protectedpages

I've filed an enhancement request as Bug9326 to include a namespace selector on this page. Please comment on Bugzilla if you would like. Thank you, — xaosflux ^Talk 20:21, 18 March 2007 (UTC)

Looks like VOA upgraded this, just waiting for it to go live, thanks! — xaosflux ^Talk 01:49, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template whiz needed

Please see Template_talk:User_iso15924#Feature_request and Template:Babel. Thanks! Xiner (talk, email) 03:10, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

What is it you're asking for? I don't think there is a way to prevent the level zero categories from appearing across the board without editing all of the level zero templates. Assuming that the userbox portion is kept, all that needs to be done is to remove the categories from the templates (which I've already seen being done by bots, cf. Template:User ang-0). If you're talking about suppressing the userboxes too, they can be redirected to {{void}}. Both of these things require editing individual templates, since the level passed to {{Babel}} is not a separate parameter from the language code. Mike Dillon 06:15, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I took a closer look at {{User iso15924}} and made it suppress the category logic for level zero. The remaining Babel templates need to be addressed individually since there is not a meta-template from what I've seen. I just fixed Template:User ar-0, which was sort of a bitch because of RTL/LTR issues. Mike Dillon 06:25, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I will reply on your talk page, but thank you in advance! Xiner (talk, email) 15:19, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] BBC Code?

Is there any way to change editing to BBC code? --PokeYourHeadOff 22:01, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Do you mean BBCode?. If so I wouldn't hold your breath! BBCode does not have a universal standard. You may currently choose between wiki markup (rather similar to bbcode) and/or HTML. — xaosflux ^Talk 04:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, Wikimarkup is easier than most implementations of BBCode that I've seen. — Frecklefoot | Talk 11:43, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Opps ya BBcode, sigh, I like BBcode better. Well I guess I can live with it. --PokeYourHeadOff 00:44, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] programmatic access

Hi, I'm writing an application that needs access to wikipedia data. For a variety of reasons, it would be really great if I could access the data programmatically. The two that top the list:

• I could then avoid scraping the front of the en.wikipedia.org sight, sparing your servers the burden and sparing myself the time necessary to write code that does such an awful thing.
• The data I get would be free of the html content that wraps it.

Note: my needs would be met by either of: a queriable web service... or a dump of some or all of the wikipedia content (which I would then download and use offline).

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

ty

Kierah 11:22, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

See m:dumps. MaxSem 11:35, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, and please ensure you meet the terms of the content licence (described at Wikipedia:Text of the GNU Free Documentation License) if you are using Wikipedia content outside of Wikipedia. mattbr 11:39, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

(WP:BEANS) There is also query.php or you can go directly to action=raw on a page. Don't abuse these, however. Live mirrors and such get themselves blocked ^_^. --Splarka (rant) 08:31, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk page blanking after edits

On two separate occassions, edits to Wikipedia talk:Railway line template have resulted in large parts of the discussion being blanked. See edit 1 and edit 2. The first edit was by me, and I assumed I'd just done something stupid, so reverted it. The second was by User:HandigeHarry, who assures me it wasn't deliberate (and I have no reason to doubt him). Could there be any reason for this?

NB - I've previously posted this on WP:HELPDESK, where it was suggested it might be a server glitch. – Tivedshambo (talk) 15:45, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

It could be related to this archive question. If it is, this could be a significant problem. Mr.Z-mantalk¢Review! 19:56, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New-messages bar appearing when I don't have messages

Twice today, the new-messages bar has appeared for me even though I don't have any new message. (I click on 'last change' and get a diff I've already viewed; when navigating away either the original time when it came up correctly or the time it comes up incorrectly, it's disappeared again.) Anyone know what might be causing this? --ais523 17:47, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I don't know, but I'm getting them too, over the last several days and continuing now. Doesn't seem to matter which browser I use. If there's a trick to make this stop I'd love to hear it. — coelacan — 03:49, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I'm adding myself to the list of people encountering this glitch. Anybody know what's up? AniMate 05:33, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Me too, and I've been seeing some other artifacts (such as existing pages yielding redlinks). At a guess, there is discrepancy between the different servers. >Radiant< 12:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I've been getting these fake "you've got mail" messages for days. The server always notifies me about the last edit to the page, including if it is a reply I made myself. (Running Win XP with IE 7.0).Valentinian ^{T / C} 13:16, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I keep getting these too, and was about to come here to complain about it... Hbdragon88 00:51, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Radiant's explanation seems good, though I have to say that these false new message banners are much more annoying than any of the joke banners people were complaining about a few weeks ago. Do we have any answers on what's happening? AniMate 07:35, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I am seeing this for ca 3 days now and with increasing tendnecy, today ca. 5 times.--Tikiwont 14:01, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help with journal citation template malfunction?

Hi all,

Several of us are working on improving Wikipedia's range of taxonomic articles, by making stubs with references. To check that our references were OK before submitting them to Wikipedia, we made a master list of 4428 especially useful references to proofread. Unfortunately, the formatting of the references seem to fail after about a few hundred {{cite journal}} references. We could split the master list up and proofread the sublists separately, but maybe there's an easy solution that we've overlooked? Thanks for your time and help! :) Willow 22:54, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

I suspect that there is some limit to the number of times a template can be called per page, so yeah, go with subpages. It takes forever to load, anyway; I had to wait a full minute on DSL. -Amarkov moo! 23:02, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

Yeah there are Template limits. The stats for the current page are below:

<!-- 
Pre-expand include size: 2047944 bytes
Post-expand include size: 1240275 bytes
Template argument size: 590210 bytes
Maximum: 2048000 bytes
-->

Template:Cite journal is intricate and large, causing the issues you're seeing. A possible option is creating a much slimmer template for just a specific page, or split the article. Cheers. --MZMcBride 00:12, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Which method of "includeonly" should I use on image copyright tags?

A while ago I started methodically reviewing the image copyright tags in Special:Prefixindex/Template:PD, standardizing them with Template:Image-license, and replacing the code <includeonly>[[Category:Public domain images]]</includeonly> (or whatever the image category was) with the code {{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|Image|[[Category:Public domain images|{{PAGENAME}}]]}}. Fabartus (Frankb) left a post on my talk page that seemed to indicate that the ParserFunction I use to replace the "includeonly" tag may not be portable to other sites using MediaWiki. I do not know and am entirely neutral about this; I could just as easily reverse the changes I've made to the image copyright tags with the prefix "PD." My question is: Is the ParserFunction not portable to other sites using MediaWiki? Thanks for your input. --Iamunknown 04:06, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

ParserFunctions requires an extension to be installed, and so a default install of MediaWiki will not include it. However, the installation is incredibly simple. Further, thousands of templates use ParserFunctions, so I don't think worrying about portability for any particular set of templates is necessary. Hope that helps. --MZMcBride 04:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

After an edit conflict, by the way: MediaWiki does not come with ParserFunctions; you have to install them as an extension. Of course, we have many templates with ParserFunctions, and I don't see why we shouldn't use them just because someone else doesn't. For example, the use of <ref> tags is not a standard feature, yet we use them. See Special:Version for everything that's not portable, per se.

Either way works, although the I would think that it might be useful to have [[Category:Public domain images|{{#ifeq:{{NAMESPACE}}|Image|{{PAGENAME}}|*}}]] just to locate uses of this template not in the image namespace. And technically, your use of "Image" may not be portable to other language Wikipedias, while Image ({{ns:6}}) is. Gracenotes^T § 04:52, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Section editing error

I've seen one instances today where section editing caused the part of the page that wasn't edited to revert to an older version ([5]), and one where section editing caused the rest of the page to disappear ([6]). >Radiant< 13:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Weird things have been happening to everyone lately, from blankings to out-of-order revisions. It's odd. Gracenotes^T § 13:58, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Send new password" problems

Shocker: I'm sorry for editing this post, but there is a problem with the "Send new Password" function. I forgot my password, chose "Send new password", it said I'll get my password via email but I didn't. It's been 3 days now, I tried a couple of times to ask for a new password, but I don't get any email :\ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.18.88.109 (talk • contribs) 14:54, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Transwikification question

I installed a fresh copy of MediaWiki yesterday, and would like to be able to transwiki articles (keeping the history per GFDL requirements).

I notice Wiktionary and Wikibooks have transwiki enabled, how would I do this on my local one on 127.0.0.1??

I changed the settings per $wgImportSources using the interwiki links, but it didn't seem to work unlike the wikibooks example here.

If anyone could help me this would be appreciated. I've set up 2 of my own wikis so far, and they're going OK - they're not publically accessible, only used as an in-house encyclopedia. --sunstar net^talk 19:08, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image:Foo_bar.jpg

If you try to go to a deleted/non-existent image page and the name has a space/underscore, the log link on that page is broken (see [7]). A quick search on bugzilla didn't give any results. Can someone familiar with the bug report system confirm whether or not this is a dupe? --- RockMFR 19:37, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

I requested an edit here that should take care of the problem. Gracenotes^T § 19:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Ahh, I didn't realize that it was controlled by a MediaWiki page. Thanks for that. --- RockMFR 23:26, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] HELP

I accidentally changed my skin and really hate it now. Nothing I try will allow me to get it back to the default skin at all. I've had help from other mods and I've done the usual of going into My Preferencs and holding down Control + F5. I've deleted all my history and refreshed the page and shut the PC down but still to no avail. Can ANYONE at all help me. I will even let you have my account password so you can do it for me if you want! Yours Cls14 21:23, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Hopefully this will help:

1. Go here.
2. Click on "Skin"
3. Select whichever skin you want to view Wikipedia in.
4. Click "Save"
5. Press Ctrl + F5.

Gracenotes^T § 21:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes I have done that before thanks. Just doesn't work. Anyone else got any ideas? I have seen on another pages that this is a common problem. Why don't they just get rid of the different skins? They seem to cause more trouble than good. Cls14 21:32, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

See the FAQ at the top of this page. This link is supposed to fix it. Removing the skins would be as popular as making everyone drive cars painted black. —EncMstr 21:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Maths symbols

I find when browsing articles which contain certain mathemical symbols (such as First Order Logic - the symbol beside the C in the A, B, C bullet points won't show) that the symbols don't show - rather, a small square appears in its place. Am I missing a required font? Thanks, 81.102.34.92 23:14, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, it's the "therefore" character from the mathematical operators set. Please see Help:Multilingual support (and [8]). -- Rick Block (talk) 00:39, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Display time remaining on active block

When viewing the block log for a particular user, is it possible to (a) provide some kind of indication that a block is currently active; and/or (b) display the time remaining (DD:HH:MM) for that block? Thanks. --ZimZalaBim (talk) 00:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I really doubt that this change is going to get any priority by the developers. It seems primarily intended to help someone who has been blocked and is trying to figure out exactly when he/she can resume editing. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:23, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] UserPage creation

How do I create an UserPage - please direct me to an example of a well-written UserPage Tx, RS

This is more an artistic endeavor than a how-to, other than clicking on "edit", but you have already created user:Rstrawn. Look at pages in, for example, Category:User en (English-speaking wikipedians). If you see something you like, edit their page (so you can see the source) and grab the corresponding wikitext. —EncMstr 01:32, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Odd diff

this diff shows a lot of other text that is not displayed in the article. Gimmetrow 01:04, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

That's because it was removed in the next edit: [9]. --MECU≈talk 19:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Perhaps I should be clearer - the diff shows a lot of text in red which was not represented in the form of the page displayed immediately below the diff as the result of the diff. It's gone now, of course. Gimmetrow 19:27, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Registering on Other Wiki sites (Italian)

Hey I registered on the Italian Wikipedia, and I got the conformation email, and clicked the conformation link, and it my conformation was accepted. I tried to log in, and it said that my account couldn't be created because my school's filter wouldn't allow it or something... I'm at home, and there are NO filters that wouldn't allow it... so what's wrong? If anyone can help, reply on my talk page, or email me @: <email removed>

Thanks! Bryse 01:20, 22 March 2007 (UTC)Bryse

This is the English Wikipedia. It's possible that someone here can help, but if you're having problems at another language version of Wikipedia, you may be better off asking there rather than here. -- John Broughton (♫♫) 21:20, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

If you got the confirmation email, then your account must have been created. If it was the Italian Wikipedia, the same issues would affect you here, so go ahead and try again. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 21:23, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dorothea von Stetten Art Award

The article Dorothea von Stetten Art Award has a leading character I don't know. I am not able to move the article to Dorothea von Stetten Art Award. Can someone help? Greetings --Heiko A 09:03, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

I've moved it. In the move page, I just positioned the cursor after the first 'D', pressed backspace several times, then retyped the 'D'. I've also deleted the incorrect title. -gadfium 09:24, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

How do I warn a vandalist which is not registered (only has an IP address - specifically 204.38.150.2)?

I am sorry if I posted this question on the wrong page, in the wrong format, etc., but there is a limit to how much a man should read and search just to ask a simple question.

Gidip 15:21, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Have you read Wikipedia:Vandalism? IP addresses have talk pages too. —Remember the dot ^(talk) 15:28, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

You can post a message on the user's talk page, which in this case is User talk:204.38.150.2. Judging by all the previous warnings on the talk page and previous blocks it seems this user is a known vandal. I hope this helps, Jayden54 15:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Thank you both. Gidip 19:18, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problem with subcategory

I just added the category Category:Villages in Chile to Category:Villages by country but it shows up under "V" instead of "C". Can this be fixed? For my own satisfaction, would someone explain how, even if you do it? Thanks--JAXHERE | ^Talk 17:32, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Pipe the category-inclusion link to the sortkey you want (e.g. writing [[Category:Some user category]] on my userpage would sort it under 'U' for 'User:', but writing [[Category:Some user category|ais523]] on my userpage would sort it under 'a' for 'ais523'. --ais523 17:36, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

The vertical bar is a wiki all-purpose delimiter. For example, in template references, it separates parameters. In regular wikilinks it provides an alias. In category "links" it provides an index value. For categories, it's common to have many which need to be indexed different from the article name: The wiki magic word {{DEFAULTSORT:}} is useful. See the wikitext at the bottom of Steve Fossett for a good example. —EncMstr 17:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanations. The pipe worked fine. Does the use of {{DEFAULTSORT:}} eliminate the need to put in the index value for category links? JAXHERE | ^Talk 18:21, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, that's exactly what it is for. However, the help hints that you can have more than one; you cannot. — RevRagnarok ^{Talk Contrib} 18:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

The help explains the way it's meant to work, not the way it actually works. --ais523 18:33, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template collapse/state control

Could someone that is good with controlling the collapse-ability of templates help with Template:Hidden begin? I tried adding a "state" to allow controlling the template to force open/close/auto (or default auto) but it doesn't seem to be working and I'm not very good with these collapsible things. Take a look at 2007 Colorado Buffaloes football team where I'm testing it. The 2007 Recruits should be forced closed. I know testing in the article space isn't a good idea, but I was sure this would work and it seems I was wrong. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. --MECU≈talk 19:16, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

According to the table at the bottom of this page, NavFrame div cannot have a custom initial state. In order to do that, you'll need to use collapsible tables. Cheers. --MZMcBride 19:26, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay. Thanks. Could you help with Template:AmFootballScoreSummaryStart now please? It's using tables and the default should be collapsed, which works okay, but when you click "show", it changes the table from the min-width 300px to a auto-sized table (that moves the show button) and doesn't show the table! Talk about frustrating. Click show again and it works, but doesn't use the mid-width feature ever again. --MECU≈talk 19:57, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

A few minor edits seemed to help. Let me know if you have any other issues. --MZMcBride 22:29, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Strange happenings in Wikipedia

• Check this out in edit mode

[[Special:Whatlinkshere/{{BASEPAGENAMEE}}|what links here]]

This: {{BASEPAGENAMEE}}">[[Special:Whatlinkshere/{{BASEPAGENAMEE}}|what links here]] is what I see, again it might be my monobook stuff acting up. --Darkest Hour 19:51, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Has to be your monobook. Prodego ^talk 21:26, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Autoblocks appearing in admin block log

Forgive me if this has been proposed before, but I would like to suggest putting autoblocks directly in an admins blocklog, it would make it far easier to check up on and the autoblock tool seams to stop functioning at times (as it has now). The block could be in the same format as the IPblocklist, but maybe with an addition to make it clear that it is an autoblock and not a manual admin move. Ryanpostlethwaite contribs/talk 20:09, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

While the devs are at it, it would sure be nice if the block log told me which IP range block is effecting a specific IP. ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 02:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Ohh, and it sure would be nice if admins could see deleted edits in a users contributions, maybe a different color? ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 02:59, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

That last one should be doable after the 1.10 release, if VoiceOfAll's rev_deleted work is committed to the core code. However, the deleted contributions extension has to be enabled as well. Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 03:19, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scylla and Charybdis (the 'import a dump' Odyssey)

Hi, this is User:Mdob - again!

My home computer configurantion:

• Windows XP, pt-br, SP1;
• running an administrator account
• IE6;
• WAMP5 1.4.4:
  • Apache version : Apache/1.3.33 (Win32)
  • PHP version : 5.0.4
  • MySQL version : 4.1.10a-nt - extension : mysqli
  • phpinfo( ), PHPmyadmin 2.6.1-pl3, SQLitemanager 1.0.4
• MediaWiki 1.8.2:
  • project name:MyPedia
  • 2 accounts: WikiSysop and Mdob
• no Internet access from home, so I browse the Web in a Internet house (Sorry by the red link, I don't know how you call these things in English

My problem:

After one and a half year of tries, I still can't import a dump (Wikipedia or Wikia or watever) into my home computer either logged as WikiSysop or as Mdob

I've tried the:

• esperanto,
• ido and
• maori wikipedias

and the

• doom wiki.

[edit] Scylla

If I run "iexplore.exe http://127.0.0.1/wiki/Maintenance/ImportDump.php" this message appears:

403 Forbidden - Microsoft Internet Explorer

Forbidden You don't have permission to access /wiki/Maintenance/ImportDump.php on this server.

---

Apache/1.3.33 Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80

But I have permission! I'm running an administrator account!

If I try:

cmd
cd C:\wamp\www\wiki\maintenance
path=c:\wamp\php
php importDump.php < c:\pages_current.xml

PHP bombs and shows this nonsense message:

DB connection error: MySQL functions missing, have you compiled PHP with the --with-mysql option?

Compiled PHP? Hello?!? This is Windows! Different from Linux, I don't have to compile programs to install them. I downloaded wamp5-1.4.4.exe auto-installer from SourceForge and double clicked it and installed it. phpMyAdmin runs perfectly.

The permissions Apache is refering to are not the permissions you (on an administrator account) have; it's refering to the permissions Apache itself (running on a different account) has. You should check if the php files are readable by the account Apache is running under. About PHP, even if you are in Windows, it was compiled (by someone else in this case); either whoever compiled it didn't compile the mysql client code, or you didn't load the mysql module (check your php configuration, IIRC it comes with all the modules commented out; also note the configuration for the command line PHP executable might be in a different file than the Apache PHP module configuration). --cesarb 00:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

OK, I'm totally clueless about this. What files do I have to modify? Can you give names? I know zero about Apache configuration! are you refering to httpd.conf? Mdob | Talk 20:41, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

The PHP configuration is separate from the Apache configuration, and it's usually called php.ini; I have no idea where it's located on the Windows port of PHP. There should be two of them, one for the Apache module and one for the command line interface. Look for some commented extension= lines, the correct line to add would be something like extension=mysql.dll. --cesarb 21:30, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Righ, I'm going to try this when I am back home (right now I am at the LAN house). Thanks. PS: don't delete this thread yet. probably I'll have more questions about this all. Mdob | Talk 22:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Nevermind. I've uncommented all extension= lines in php.ini, wich screwed up my Mediawiki installation (error messages starting appearing showing my usename and password instead of the Mainpage). Nonetheless, thank you very much. I'll give up trying to install a dump (by now). Ok. You can delete or archive this thread now.

[edit] Charybdis

But if I try to import a dump inside mediawiki-1.8.2, running "iexplore.exe http://127.0.0.1/wiki/index.php/Special:Import" and trying to import c:\pages_current.xml (the 6575KB doom wiki), this shows up:

Upload of import file failed; perhaps the file is bigger than the allowed upload size.

Please export the file from the source wiki using the Special:Export utility, save it to your disk and upload it here.

bigger than the allowed upload size???!!?!? This is lame. If mediawiki-1.8.2 can't import a mere 6MB dump, what to say about the esperanto and ido dumps, with 30+ MB each, not to mention the englishwikipedia 1.8 GB super-dooper-hyper-mega-jumbo dump... what is the logic in offering dumps for download if you can't import them?

I do can dump my personal wikimedia project (MyPedia) to Export.xml and then reimport it with Special:Import (So, the problem is not with the Special:Import feature)

Recapitulating:

• I can't import a wiki (not only the doom or Wikia or Wikimedia wikis - any wiki)
• I can't import through Special:Import (except only the small Export.xml files I myself create);
• I can't import through mantenance\importDump.php
• I can't even import through "php importDump.php < pages_current.xml"

I've already read the meta and Wikipedia help pages, and even some old pages like "How to become a MediaWiki hacker" and "Wikipedia:Database dump import problems". Nothing happened and I've already run out of ideas.

(*Sight*) sugestions, anyone?

The upload limit is not a MediaWiki one; it's a PHP limit (to prevent denial of service attacks). It's usually a very small value (a few megabytes IIRC), and can be increased on the configuration file (but don't increase it too much on a public server). Also, I don't think Special:Import can import full dumps (its main use is to import single pages exported by Special:Export). --cesarb 00:16, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

What configuration file? PHP, Apache? Please note, I'm a clueless newbie. Mdob | Talk 20:44, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Special:import can import many pages at once, if they are in the format Special:Export uses(which can give multiple pages with multiple revisions). ^High_InBC^{(Need help? Ask me)} 02:33, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

It's the PHP one. --cesarb 21:49, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Image transparency issues

Image:Us senate seal.png is acting up. It's transparent (ie, I added an alpha layer and removed the white stuff outside the circle, and it has the checkerboard), but it doesn't appear as such on Template:USCongressTerms. It's probably a transient quirk that no one can fix (and I tried clearing all sorts of caches), although if anyone knows what caused it, that'd be great. Gracenotes^T § 20:20, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Fixed. I right-clicked the image, purged it, and then purged the template page, as well as adding a one to the end of the thumbnail name. One of those things worked. : - ) --MZMcBride 01:47, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

The background still appears opaque in Firefox... but no matter, it will be fixed eventually for me. Gracenotes^T § 02:12, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Firefox crashed, and it was fixed! Of course, I have mixed feelings about that, but am glad that my cache was cleared... somehow. Gracenotes^T § 16:06, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Odd text appearing - howso

I'm really sorry in advance if this is a dumb question, or if I am asking it in the wrong place, but please take a look at J.R. Orci. I am trying to work out where that text at the bottom of the page comes from - the one that starts "Amazon.Com, Barnes and Noble, African American Fiction..."

I've looked everywhere I could think of, and am curious as to what I am missing.

Any help would be appreciated. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 21:51, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

It was in Template:Writer-stub. I removed it. Prodego ^talk 21:53, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks - it was odd, but I looked at another stubbed writer and didn't se ethe text, so assumed it wasn't there. Oh well. I'll know what sort of thing to look for next time! Thanks. -- Alucard (Dr.) | Talk 22:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Table help

Here's what I'd like to do, but can't: over here, near the bottom of that table, you'll see how Andrew Oliver is in a column by himself. He shouldn't be; he should be just to the left of where he currently is. Can we arrange that, please? Biruitorul 04:14, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Have a look now: Is that what you wanted? —EncMstr 04:30, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes, thanks! Biruitorul 16:58, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Odd bug?

I seem to be getting a random "new message" notification for no apparent reason when there are no new messages on my talk page, and it's not the "practical joke" template, either. I can't remember the circumstances for the first time it happened, but today I prodded a few articles, added the templates to the user's talk page, saved the edit, and got a new message notification after saving the diff. MSJapan 11:44, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] You have new messages (last change)

I am getting the "new messages" notifier (orange box) once in a while and once i go checking for any new message i find nothing new. Do you have an explanation for that? -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up ®} 12:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

A lot of us have this problem, see above.It looks like nobody has a good answer at the moment. Valentinian ^{T / C} 12:53, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

(Edit conf) See the "New-messages bar appearing when I don't have messages" section above. I don't know if anything new is known. I'm seeing this too, and have noticed it often occurs in conjunction with the problem where a random older revision of the page is served (see WP:ANI#Caches_and_Page_Histories for example). -SpuriousQ (talk) 12:56, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks guys for your replies. I haven't paid attention to the thread above. Cheers. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up ®} 14:24, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

In your case, your talk page received a number of subtle edits, any one of which would trigger the notification, but might be hard to notice without doing a diff. This one, for example, is a single word added in the midst of a long paragraph. In the last day, there were two other edits which added a couple sentences not at the bottom of the page. Perhaps you overlooked those? —EncMstr 16:36, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks EncMstr. Well, not really. I always make sure to check the history w/ much scrunity. Indeed, my case here is that i get the message notifier while i am editing or clicking on a link in order to browse an article. -- FayssalF - ^{Wiki me up ®} 17:08, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

A tempting explanation, but it wouldn't explan what happend to my talk page. I got the same message three or four times, and around five notices about a reply I made myself. On the positive side; today, it has only happened once. Valentinian ^{T / C} 16:52, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Make that twice (sigh). Valentinian ^{T / C} 16:58, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Four times for me today, displaying the same (top) diff each time (I checked the history, just to make sure). --ais523 17:13, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cache coherency issue: has been happening for a couple of weeks now

There has been an issue with this for the last week or two. There is also a related issue where sometimes the page history is old, or the version of the page is old. It looks like there is an issue with the cache coherency of servers that sometimes delivers a stale page. The stale page issue can cause the "new messages" flag to be incorrectly evaluated. I haven't seen much discussion though on whether this is being fixed, or even if it has been logged as a bug. —Doug Bell ^talk 18:56, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Date and time disapeared

I used to have the date and time displayed in the upper right (which I found very useful in knowing how recent an edit is). This time has dissapeared. Does anybody here know how I can get it back? Thanks! -- Chrislk02 (Chris Kreider) 14:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template talk:IPA

It was suggested here that this template should use a lang parameter to indicate it does not contain ordinary English. But it is not clear what the right lang code would be. Please comment on the talk page of the template. Thanks, CMummert · talk 18:43, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Problem: Contributions Not Showing New Edits.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed this problem, if I go into my contributions, and the contributions of others', nothing registers. Does anyone know what's going on here? Acalamari 20:19, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Actually, it's updating, but slowly. Is this a similar error to what happened with the watchlists a few weeks ago? Acalamari 20:21, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Never mind; it seems to be fine now. I'm not sure if anyone else noticed the problem. Acalamari 20:45, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Been happening for some time for me, usually updates about 30sec-1min. Matthew 20:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Okay; I suspect it's probably the same problem as last time, as the watchlist did nothing as well. However, last time I only had a stuck watchlist; I still had updating contributions. I guess it was a delay in the servers or something like that. Acalamari 20:54, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How to link to an image within an image caption?

This is the page where i'd like to add a link within caption text: Utah_Phillips

This is the current image with photo text from that page, into which i'd like to insert a link to an image.

[[Image:Utah bw sm.jpg|thumb|Utah Phillips]]

Here is the image to be linked:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:IWW.jpg

Caption text should say: Utah Phillips showing his IWW card

And clicking on IWW card should take the browser to that larger image of the card.

I try to do it like this:

[[Image:Utah bw sm.jpg|thumb|Utah Phillips showing his [[Image:IWW.jpg|IWW card]]]]

But Wikipedia embeds the image, rather than displaying the link to the image. A trick that i haven't yet learned, can anyone please help? thanks! Richard Myers 21:06, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Use [[Image:Utah bw sm.jpg|thumb|Utah Phillips showing his [[:Image:IWW.jpg|IWW card]]]] . Note the colon. Prodego ^talk 21:11, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, that worked great! Richard Myers 23:34, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Image removed - fair use stuff should stay in mainspace. x42bn6 Talk 23:39, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

Didn't know it was fair use, since I didn't look at the image page. But messages here are not archived, so it would not have lasted long anyway. Prodego ^talk 01:05, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cropped Top

I noticed the entire top of Wikipedia is cropped. Even the globe! The Sign text and icon sure could use some space down as well.

Please advise if this needs to go elsewhere to report.

--RonEJ 23:40, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Monobook.js malfunction

Hi, could you please fix my monobook.js for me. There is a malfunction causing all monobook functionality to disappear. It only happens from within my account. Please, help! zero » 03:26, 24 March 2007 (UTC) Monobook is back up again! zero » 04:29, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

• Excellent! That certainly is a large and complex monobook. --Iamunknown 04:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] wikitable

Did someone change the way that wikitable works? All the "cell borders" appear to be gone to me. Am I having a personal problem or was a change made? If a change was made intentionally, can it please be reverted? I think that this class is used in too many places for it to be changed arbitrarily. --After Midnight ⁰⁰⁰¹ 05:20, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Does it still look screwed up after following WP:PURGE and WP:CACHE? Titoxd^{(?!? - cool stuff)} 05:34, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Believe this is due to a recent change in the site-wide CSS files. I brought up the concern that it would most likely break in IE6 at MediaWiki talk:Common.css#Wikitable changes, but the change has not been reverted. I'll add an {{editprotected}} and link to this posting as a followup. Sorry for the breakage. Mike Dillon 05:49, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Spread sheet - entry of data

Is it possible to create a spread sheet and allow people around the world to enter text information into the various columns?

I want to be able to create a spread sheet with about 150 words and phrases in English and allow people around the world to translate the words and phrases into their native languages of Arabic, Bengali, Finish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish.

A sample of the spread sheet can be viewed at the following URL.
Translation Spread Sheet

Lpscal 06:51, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

You could make a table

header 1	header 2	header 3
row 1, cell 1	row 1, cell 2	row 1, cell 3
row 2, cell 1	row 2, cell 2	row 2, cell 3

and ask the people at Wikipedia:WikiProject Philately to fill it in. —Ruud 12:00, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Justify paragraphs

I like the way articles are displayed with justify paragraphs, it greatly enhances appearance and readability. A major drawback, however, is that all pages are displayed that way and e.g. histories do look a lot worse with justified "paragraphs", b/c the diff selection buttons are not vertically aligned any more etc. My question: Is there any workaround so that only pages in article namespace will be displayed with justified paragraphs? —KNcyu38 (talk • contribs) 07:02, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

Disable justifying in your prferences and add the following piece of code to Special:Mypage/monobook.css:

.ns-0 #bodyContent { text-align: justify; }

—Ruud 12:07, 24 March 2007 (UTC)