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[edit] Isn't it time...

...you applied for adminship again? I'd support... Hell, I'd even co-nom (although you may wish to review if that is a good idea)! LessHeard vanU 00:04, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

Hmmm... given your comments at Majorly's re-RfA I think the time is doubly right! ;~) LessHeard vanU 01:32, 4 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank You

66.176.85.30 05:56, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Greetings

We talked on IRC once; thanks for your help there. I was Jackrm, if you remember. I recently changed my username to Jack. Anyway, hi, thanks etc. :) -- Jack ^{is celebrating his birthday!} 06:06, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Faulty grammar

Your message to me re Sierra Mist started "in regards to..." This is not correct. You give someone your regards; you write in regard to such and such a thing. I hope this information is useful to you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.154.235.151 (talk) 06:42, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cluebot Rollback Discussion

I think you misunderstood the intention, I think the point was not to create a new group specifically for one user(bot in this case)[1] but it would become the "poster bot" for future users who would benefit from the feature but aren't ready for the whole mop yet. Alternatively, Cobi has stated[2] that creating a new group wasn't necessary. Both points seem to be up for discussion at the same time, from what I gather. Cheers! --Charitwo ^talk 23:33, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First Edit

Happy First Edit Day, Gracenotes, from the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day!

• FROM YOUR FRIEND:

--  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) 00:05, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

:O HAS IT REALLY BEEN TWO YEARS?

...answer: no, because you weren't there for most of the first...

Nobody ever wishes me happy first edit day :/ – Gurch 05:08, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] classification of admins

Don't think I don't understand jokes. Part of my wokr here was cleaning up joke articles so that they did not fall victims of joke deletion spree raging some time ago in wikipedia. Still, joke or no joke, classifying someone's name as "boring" or "nonsense" is a personal insult. Period. Stop in tracks. No. We have enough real drama here. `'Míkka>t 05:03, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Lolferret

– Gurch 05:25, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

CEILING GRACENOTES IS ALREADY AWARE OF UR IMAGE. continues to watch Category:Lolcats intently Gracenotes^T § 05:38, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

– Gurch 06:32, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

OH DEAR GOD. You, sir, win an arbitrarily large number of internets. Gracenotes^T § 06:35, 30 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Defaultsort

Doh! Thanks for going and fixing my DEFAULTSORT templates. I somehow never noticed those are supposed to be done with a colon instead of a pipe. —Caesura^(t) 19:11, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

No problem—thanks for cleaning up the articles in the first place! =] Gracenotes^T § 19:19, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit]  :O

What does that change you made to my userpage do? – Gurch (talk) 01:31, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

I coded you a CSS attribute... but you reverted it! :'( :'( :'( Compare:

and

I changed the former to the latter. Gracenotes^T § 01:35, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Ah. Well, that seems OK provided I don't have anything too wide to see... I'll add it back for now – Gurch (talk) 03:23, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Amelvand bug?

There seems to be an error in amelvand that makes date subtraction end up with statements such as "Latest warning was left -59 minutes and -35 seconds ago." Any ideas? —Animum § 02:50, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Hm. This is probably due to daylight saving time. Gracenotes^T § 02:52, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Hmm. If daylight saving time expired in October, why are dates just now changing? It seems that JavaScript isn't the problem, but the mediawiki dates are 1 hour ahead... At any rate, I'm confused as heck right now. :-P —Animum § 15:41, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Hm... so am I. I'll implement a temporary fix (see also: voodoo programming :P). Gracenotes^T § 18:29, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template-affecting software change?

Can you explain what is going to happen with Template:Backlognav? Can the problem be fixed? Mangojuice^talk 05:58, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, and probably not. #ifexist is a parser function. It can be used like so:

{{#ifexist:The weather in London|Exists|Doesn't exist}} = Exists

Each #ifexist represents a database look up: a query is sent to a database server to see if a page exists. In most other operations, database queries are limited in some way or another. For example, the total size of all of the templates on a page cannot exceed 2048000 bytes. If I transcluded WP:MOS in an article 100 times, only the first 18 transclusions would actually work. This is a safeguard to ensure that people don't overwork the servers and prevent other users from viewing content. (i.e., a Denial of Service attack.)

Werdna explains this a bit better than me, so I'll quote him here (see WP:VPT):

think submitting a page filled with ifexist statements to the article size limit. Each one takes 3ms, it's 19 characters per check, this could fill an article up to 2MB, so we get a finished article of something like 100,000 requests. This would tie up one quarter of one of our ten $12,000 database servers for five minutes.

Basically, allowing an unlimited number of #ifexist calls is a security risk, so developers have capped it at 100 per page. Any calls past that break. Template:Backlognav contains quite a few #ifexist calls, and the only way to use it without having it break is to transclude only one or two or it per page. If this is fine with you, feel free to revert my changes to {{Backlognav}}. But at nearly 3000 calls, {{CSD/Subcategories}} is not salvageable. Gracenotes^T § 06:14, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Mangojuice: oops, it looks like you already know most of the above (since you designed the backlog template in the first place). Never mind the initial paragraphs, then. Gracenotes^T § 07:29, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Well, I didn't know the server issue it was causing. Crap. Okay, what we really need here is a bot, I think, rather than a template. There's no reason for those templates to be calculated over and over every time someone wants to see the display; instead, a system like is in place at WP:AFD/Old would be much better. Mangojuice^talk 22:03, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Just a heads-up - I'm pretty determined to get this down under 100. I'll be working on the backlog templates tonight quite a bit. --- RockMFR 06:19, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks. It's a useful template, it appears. But perhaps backlog-checking shouldn't go back 23 days? The template checks the category 23 days ago, then 22, then 21, etc. Gracenotes^T § 06:23, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

Down to 102 :) Template:Shortcut is adding 2 of them, unneccessarily IMO. This too can be fixed, but a bot will need to fix all current calls to use {{Shortcut|WP:V}} rather than {{Shortcut|[[WP:V]]}}. --- RockMFR 07:39, 2 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Rollback issue

Thanks for providing the script. I've got one problem: I haven't the slightest clue what to do with it, or where to copy it, or anything else! Could you please explain what I'm supposed to do with it? Nyttend 05:48, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

You can put it in your monobook.js page. Every registered user has a monobook.js page, and if you use the monobook skin (the one with the grey background and Wikipedia globe in the top-left corner), JavaScript code in the page is executed every time you view a page on Wikipedia. (See Wikipedia:Monobook for more information.) To install the code, copy-and-paste it to your monobook.js, located at User:Nyttend/monobook.js. Then, bypass your cache to ensure that your browser is using the most recent copy of your monobook.js page – you should do this every time you edit it. It's not a good idea to install scripts from random strangers, but the code I posted has been reviewed, I've written scripts for other people before, etc.

If you don't use Internet Explorer, I could give you a different version of the script that prompts for an optional custom edit summary (which would be bug-prone in IE). Gracenotes^T § 22:02, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the note. I've got one more problem: although I saw the code on the page, somehow it's been deleted from the history of the VP technical page; supposedly the last edit I made to it was several days earlier on an unrelated point. Could you email the text to me? Thanks! Nyttend 23:53, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Aha, that's my problem; I thought it was on the technical page, not on the proposals page! Thanks for letting me know. Nyttend 06:11, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Hi Grace

The talk page is fixed now. Cheers! >Radiant< 22:46, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

• Oh dearie me... does Conservapedia actually object vehemently to our "non-professional" usernames? And not even do the actual homework to find a handful of usernames that are even funny? What is the world coming to... >Radiant< 23:47, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Twinklefluff

Hi Grace, you redirected the twinkle fluff talk page without actually adding the changes I suggested. I was wondering if there was a reason for it? Thanks. Redrocketboy 20:51, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Help! Twinkle and your Script Integration

Hi,

Can you team up with Twinkle and integrate your fast reverting into the script so that I can use javascript features, when I tried loading both your script and Twinkles onto my monobook.js file, it removed both of them!

I would really appreciate it if you could do this! And it would be an amazing improvement to both Twinkle, and your own Script!

The Helpful One ^{(Talk) (Contributions)} 23:19, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

In my tests, it looks like Twinkle and Amelvand are compatible. May I suggest including Amelvand before Twinkle in your monobook.js, since while both scripts check the first line of a diff's second column, Twinkle modifies it (making Amelvand's reading of it inaccurate). They are separate scripts, however, and a merge is not too likely. Gracenotes^T § 03:33, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Statement regarding Durova/!! matter

FYI, I am alerting user's who have voted to oppose based on my comments about the Durova matter that I have written a longer statement regarding my views on the matter which I hope clarifies a few points of apparent misunderstanding. See User:JoshuaZ/Statement regarding Durova and !!. Thanks. JoshuaZ (talk) 02:04, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Useight's RFA

I just wanted to say thanks for your support in my RFA which passed with a final tally of 70/1/0. Your comments about my contributions was greatly appreciated. Useight (talk) 08:37, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Your Rollback-module

Hello. :) I use your rollback module in my monobook.js. It's very good, because it's so fast. :) But everytime when I press restore revision the page is added to my watchlist. Can I turn that off? That would be very great. :) Thanks —αἰτίας •discussion• 20:36, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Sure! Changed here – please bypass your cache. I suppose I'll make this customizable, since I tend to like watching articles I revert. Cheers, Gracenotes^T § 20:57, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Thank you a lot - I changed it in my monobook.js too. Another question: Can there be a text set, wich is added to the edit-summary by every revert? This would be great, too. :) Regards, —αἰτίας •discussion• 21:04, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

add: For example something like "(see User:Aitias/FAQ)" —αἰτίας •discussion• 21:10, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Done. After importScript("User:Gracenotes/amelvand.js"), try:

AmelPrefs.set("summarySuffix", " (see [[User:Aitias/FAQ]])");

Gracenotes^T § 22:08, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks, thanks, thanks! :) Very nice. :) Regards, —αἰτίας •discussion• 22:19, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

You're welcome :) At the moment, your custom summary might clash with the summary text in both Twinkle and Amelvand: for example, "Restored revision 1234567890 by Example(see also FAQ)". If you want to change that, you could add a space before "(see", i.e. " (see" – unless the current spacing is intentional, in which case, never mind that I said anything. Gracenotes^T § 22:28, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the hint. Is it better so? :) —αἰτίας •discussion• 22:37, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes. Nothing's wrong with either version, per se, but I think the summary might look "cleaner" with that extra little space :) Cheers, Gracenotes^T § 22:47, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, of course, you are right. I would have a question to twinkle, maybe you'll have an answer ;). Do you know, why people, who edited a page, are informed automatically, when I set a CSD, although I have set:

openUserTalkPageOnSpeedyDelete  : false, ... I have tried it with openUserTalkPageOnSpeedyDelete  : [], too; but it didn't stop. Can you help me again? Would be very nice. :) Thanks and best regards, —αἰτίας •discussion• 22:53, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

false should work there – did you clear your cache after implementing the change? Gracenotes^T § 23:09, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I cleared the chace, of course... Hmm... —αἰτίας •discussion• 23:10, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Actually, taking a look at the documentation, [] should be the appropriate value. I can't find the text "openUserTalkPageOnSpeedyDelete" in User:AzaToth/twinklespeedy.js at all, however, and the code that notifies the user does not look like it's optional. Gracenotes^T § 23:19, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

Hm, I had "[]" before, but it didn't help... Thanks for your help. :) —αἰτίας •discussion• 23:27, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia talk:Rollback for non-administrators proposal#Newbie Question

Hey Gracenotes, I think the user was wanting a really basic answer to his question - he think twinkle uses rollback. Could you answer him in very simple terms? Talking about the edit screen being bypassed with rollback? You're the best person for this job! Cheers, Ryan Postlethwaite 23:56, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Oops, sorry about that. I see you've addresses this concern – thanks :) Gracenotes^T § 01:11, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I don't think I'd ever included a URL in a prod before, so thats probably what tripped up the values. Thanks for the advise on the equal sign. It worked correctly when I added that. Mbisanz (talk) 08:19, 17 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Username Disambiguation needed!

Hi there. Are you the same person as User:Grace Note? If so, no problem; but I just thought I should alert you that an account by that name exists, and whether intentionally or not, it is obviously very similar to your own. I believe usernames are generally not allowed if they are too similar to that of an existing user; if this one isn't an alternate account of yours, perhaps you should challenge it at Requests for comment/username? Terraxos (talk) 01:24, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't think that's required, a lot of people are aware of the difference between users. Either way, it's not going to lead to a block, so there's no point in WP:RFCN. It would be a good idea if Gracenotes put a small disambig on his userpage however. Ryan Postlethwaite 01:28, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

(edit conflict'd) Thank you for your concern. Grace Note and I are distinct individuals. The similarity in our user names was brought up quite a long time ago at ANI; since Grace Note (talk · contribs) is no longer active in Wikipedia, it's certainly not as much of a concern as it once was. I use this handle, and variations of it, elsewhere on the internet, and I'm sure the same is true of Grace Note. I hope you won't mind if I keep this user name and Grace Note keeps hers (or his?), as we have both been "existing users" for some time :) Gracenotes^T § 01:37, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. I saw that the account is basically inactive, so it doesn't seem like much of a problem, but I just thought I'd let you know about it in case you didn't already. (I was concerned you might have an impostor, but it appears that's not the case.) Terraxos (talk) 05:00, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays

Happy Holidays Gracenotes. Have a Happy New Year !

^{Thedjatclubrock :) (T/C)}

[edit] The edit summary

"uphold "cute" result of RFD.. Pointless edit; stop reading this edit summary *now* if you can"

I have been staring at that edit summary aimlessly for the past 9 hours.... I can't seem to stop! HELP! -- Cat ^chi? 13:16, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Elonka 3

[edit] You're invited!

...to the next New York City Meetup!

New York City Meetup Next: Sunday January 13th, Columbia University area Last: 11/3/2007 This box: view • talk • edit

In the morning, there are exciting plans for a behind-the-scenes guided tour of the American Museum of Natural History.

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to discussing meta:Wikimedia New York City issues (see the last meeting's minutes).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 01:04, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Reply to your comment at talk page

I replied to you, at the non-admin rollback discussion page. thanks. --Steve, Sm8900 (talk) 17:04, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] huggles

'cos I know you need 'em – Gurch 08:10, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Need some template wisdom

Hi Gracenotes, I know you're good with templates and technical stuff so I'm wondering if you could drop by at Template:Phh:Edit_summary. There's a discussion on the talk page wondering what the heck this template is about and whether it should be deleted, and if so how. Cheers, Kla’quot (talk | contribs) 07:58, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikBack

Please be sure to click on the link emailed to you by the forum server to activate your account. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 22:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] You'd had to have been there at the time.

This was what was posted You can't blame a guy for making an assumption. I've freely admitted it was a mistake on my part. HalfShadow (talk) 22:36, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Meetup report

Wow, cool job wikifying the report!  :) -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:18, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

And thanks for digging up those links to the Talk:Learned Protocols of the Elders of Zion page archives from its turn on the main page so I didn't have to! Actually, I brought that example up, not Josh. Daniel Case (talk) 23:01, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

You did? Mm, I didn't take notes. It was an interesting tangent, then :) Regarding the links, no problem: I was either going to add them or a {{fact}} tag :P Gracenotes^T § 20:26, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Informing past contributors of new TFD for Template:Maintained

As you were a contributor in the last TFD, I am letting you know that {{Maintained}} is again up for deletion. Please review the current version of the template and discuss it at the TFD. Thanks! — BRIAN0918 • 2008-01-30 17:47Z

[edit] E-mail

I have sent one. Acalamari 22:18, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Custom edit summaries for Rollback

Would you be able to help out here? Carcharoth (talk) 01:34, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Comment typo

I think you messed up your comment here. You accidentally added one too many tildes. [3]

I fixed it, but I thought I'd let you know because I think template unsigned is ugly and sort of insulting. It's like, "Look at that guy! He can't even sign his own comments properly!" I always feel really bad when I forget to sign my comments properly and then sinebot has to come along and pwn me. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zenwhat (talk • contribs)

Actually, I did sign, but it was between nowiki tags :P (showing the substitution of the {{user}} template). Yeah, I did intend to have one less tilde there. Gracenotes^T § 15:57, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] RFA thanks

.: RFA thanks :.

Thanks for supporting me! My RfA passed with a final tally of 5 neutrals, 1 oppose and 148 supports, a turnout I couldn't have dreamed of. I'm going to do everything I can to help out the community, help with sysop tasks, and of course, contribute to the encyclopedia. If you ever need a hand with something, feel free to give a shout! Cheers! Master of Puppets Call me MoP!☺ 17:40, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Speedy deletion of Template:User contrib meta

A tag has been placed on Template:User contrib meta requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section T3 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is a deprecated or orphaned template. After seven days, if it is still unused and the speedy deletion tag has not been removed, the template will be deleted.

If the template is intended to be substituted, please feel free to remove the speedy deletion tag and please consider putting a note on the template's page indicating that it is substituted so as to avoid any future mistakes (<noinclude>{{transclusionless}}</noinclude>).

Thanks. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:57, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] I like the uw-warn template

I just started using it, and it's worded very nicely and does the job. Enigma ^msg! 09:27, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] New mailing list

There has been a mailing list created for Wikipedians in the New York metropolitan area (list: Wikimedia NYC). Please consider joining it! Cbrown1023 talk 21:08, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Hey! Me too! :D Enigma ^msg! 21:24, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Barnstar

		The IRC Buddy Barnstar
		For being there to talk to on IRC, when things are quiet, or feeling lonely, and for being such a great person and Wikipedian! Stwalkerster [ talk ] 17:25, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] You are invited!

New York City Meetup Next: Sunday March 16th, Columbia University area Last: 1/13/2008 This box: view • talk • edit

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, and have salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the last meeting's minutes).

Well also make preparations for our exciting Wikipedia Takes Manhattan event, a free content photography contest for Columbia University students planned for Friday March 28 (about 2 weeks after our meeting).

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

You're also invited to subscribe to the public Wikimedia New York City mailing list, which is a great way to receive timely updates.
This has been an automated delivery because you were on the invite list. BrownBot (talk) 02:51, 4 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] DEFAULTSORT on Stefan Mohr

Thanks for fixing that for me. I know better than that and I usually get it right, but sometimes my fingers don't seem to type what my brain should be telling them. Quale (talk) 20:55, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

No problem; it's not a big deal, really :D Gracenotes^T § 01:49, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Not sure about this Gracenotesbot edit

[4]. Is the redirect page a shortcut (other than in the most literal 'one string shorter than the other' sense? --Tagishsimon (talk) 00:06, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

No. Sorry about that; I've reverted that edit, and another one tandem with it. I had accidentally approved those two edits, as they came up after a string of untagged shortcuts, and intended to shut the bot off before they executed (using a single-threaded executor isn't very flexible). I was not able to do so, due to being away from the keyboard: the way the bot is set up, edits are approved in bulk, then committed at an appropriate rate. Those edits were entirely my fault. Thanks for bringing it up! Cheers, Gracenotes^T § 00:29, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:ME-nav-compact

Any idea why this template tromps on the last section at the bottom of the page? It's been overwriting stuff on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Middle-earth ever since you put it in back in July 2007. Elphion (talk) 20:15, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Script request

Thanks again It looks like it's working fine. Again, it would be nice if the script could make you go to http://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=PAGENAME&action=edit if the page doesn't exist, but that might be a hassle for the servers if there is a request being made on simple.wp every time I load a page on en.wp or vice versa. I can simply make another click (or press Ctrl+Alt+E.) Thanks again for directing me to the requests page. -Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:25, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

No problem. In case you're interested, here's the version that checks automatically:

addOnloadHook(function() {
    addPortletLink('p-cactions', 'http://' + xwLang + '.wikipedia.org/wiki/' + wgPageName, 'simple', 'ca-x' + xwLang)
    wpPageExists(wgPageName);
});
 
function wpPageExists(title) {
    var url = 'http://' + xwLang + '.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&callback=wpPageExistsCb&titles=' + title;
    var scriptElem = document.createElement('script');
    scriptElem.setAttribute('src', url);
    scriptElem.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');
    document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptElem);
}
function wpPageExistsCb(obj) {
    var exists = obj['query']['pages']['-1'];
    var elm = document.getElementById('ca-x' + xwLang);
    elm.className = exists ? 'new' : '';
    elm.firstChild.href = 'http://' + xwLang + '.wikipedia.org/wiki/' + wgPageName + (exists ? '?action=edit' : '');
}

For Simple Wikipedia, add "var xwLang = 'en';" to the top; for English, add "var xwLang = 'simple';" to the top. The query made is rather minimal, but if you want it could be triggered by a specific action. Cheers, Gracenotes^T § 03:42, 9 April 2008 (UTC).

Oh buddy Initially, the earlier versions of both scripts worked just fine. Then, the one on Simple stopped somehow, but the one on en still worked. Then, I tried using the newer versions of both and neither works. I have no idea what's going on here. Can you help me? -Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:46, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Ah, I didn't realize you used the Standard skin on your Simple English account (if that's what you're using... I'm a bit confused =]) Here's some code that works in standard:

var xwLang = 'en'
 
addOnloadHook(function() {
    var links = document.getElementsByTagName('td')[1];
    var xwLink = document.createElement('a');
    xwLink.appendChild(document.createTextNode(xwLang + ' version'));
    xwLink.href = 'http://' + xwLang + '.wikipedia.org/wiki/' + wgPageName;
    xwLink.id = 'ca-x' + xwLang;
    links.insertBefore(xwLink, getElementsByClassName(links, 'p', 'subtitle')[0]);
    links.insertBefore(document.createTextNode(' | '), xwLink);
    wpPageExists(wgPageName);
});
 
function wpPageExists(title) {
    var url = 'http://' + xwLang + '.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&callback=wpPageExistsCb&titles=' + title;
    var scriptElem = document.createElement('script');
    scriptElem.setAttribute('src', url);
    scriptElem.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');
    document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(scriptElem);
}
function wpPageExistsCb(obj) {
    var exists = obj['query']['pages']['-1'];
    var elm = document.getElementById('ca-x' + xwLang);
    elm.className = exists ? 'new' : '';
    elm.href = 'http://' + xwLang + '.wikipedia.org/wiki/' + wgPageName + (exists ? '?action=edit' : '');
}

I'm not sure why the English version isn't working – have you tried bypassing your cache? Gracenotes^T § 20:21, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks So, I just noticed that the script just started working on en.wp. I have no idea how/why. Still no luck on Simple, so I'll try this new version and see what happens. I'm refreshing over and over again, but it's not working... -Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 20:27, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Ugh I've tried several options on simple.wp and I'm still stuck. If you have the time and energy to assist, please post on my talk. If you don't, I do not hold that against you and I am very grateful for your time thus far. If you don't get back with me in c. 48 hours, I'll post on the requests page. -Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:46, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Okay, I'm still not clear on what skin you're using :) This is Monobook; this is Standard. If you're using the former on the Simple Wikipedia, install the first script. If you're using the latter on the Simple Wikipedia, install the second script. Gracenotes^T § 20:43, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Sorry I'm using Monobook on both. Just to be on the safe side, I carried over all of my settings from en., including user.css, preferences, and a copy of all my scripts. Still nothing. -Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 04:39, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] In case you are interested

One such discussion started at Wikipedia talk:Criteria for speedy deletion#CSD G6 clause "cleaning up redirects". I've also proposed that anyone who wants to expand the current criteria for speedy deletion of redirects do so over there. Carcharoth (talk) 10:29, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What to do with all your money?

I see that Sony bought you for $260 million. What are you going to do with all that money? :) — BRIAN0918 • 2008-04-23 13:56Z

Well, as you know, I'm completely owned by Sony now, but at least I can retain complete management of my corpus. As a perk in the deal I get a proprietary format named after me, .gracenotes :D Meanwhile I will continue my commitment to keep CDDB 100% free to software developers and consumers. Cheers, Gracenotes^T § 01:18, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Gracias...

for the revert and warning to the IP. APK ^{yada yada} 19:39, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

De nada :) Gracenotes^T § 01:18, 30 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] AfD nomination of Seyhan Kurt

[edit] question about oldcfdfull

Please check my comment on creating a template only for user category discussions [5] --Enric Naval (talk) 00:48, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] NYC Meetup: June 1, 2008

New York City Meetup Next: Sunday June 1st, Columbia University area Last: 3/16/2008 This box: view • talk • edit

In the afternoon, we will hold a session dedicated to meta:Wikimedia New York City activities, elect a board of directors, and hold salon-style group discussions on Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia projects (see the last meeting's minutes).

We'll also review our recent Wikipedia Takes Manhattan event, and make preparations for our exciting successor Wiki Week bonanza, being planned with Columbia University students for September or October.

In the evening, we'll share dinner and chat at a local restaurant, and (weather permitting) hold a late-night astronomy event at Columbia's telescopes.

You can add or remove your name from the New York City Meetups invite list at Wikipedia:Meetup/NYC/Invite list.

Also, check out our regional US Wikimedia chapters blog Wiki Northeast (and we're open to guest posts).
This has been an automated delivery by BrownBot (talk) 23:48, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hello!

I dunno what to put... Here's a bunch of bananas and you can go bananas... B-A-N-A-N-A-S

[edit] Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard

Yesterday, an anonymous user posted a message at WP:RSN about the fact that that page had been vandalized. (The vandalism caused a large image of Avril Lavigne to cover the entire text of the page.) Instead of responding to that user, you just deleted the message without even posting a message to the user about why you were doing that. As it turned out, one of the templates on the page really had been vandalized; see Wikipedia:ANI#Giant Avril lavigne vandalism. for a discussion of the incident. If an anonymous user posts a substantive message on the wrong noticeboard, it's better to inform them of the correct place to post instead of just deleting their message. --99.140.179.169 (talk) 06:37, 1 June 2008 (UTC)