User talk:Yecril

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Impressive edit. Good work--Cronholm¹⁴⁴ 20:41, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Impressive edit

Thanks for your comment. I imagine you had my typesetting effort on Group action in mind; please make it clear what you refer to when you decide to leave a comment. Fixing one section takes me an hour and a half; it is a considerable amount of time but I have not come up with a smarter method to do it yet. Ideally, the math coprocessor should be fixed to produce better results in HTML mode.

Do you moderate the articles on mathematical subjects on Wikipedia? If so, please take into account that the typesetting changes were made with fingers crossed — e.g. Konqueror has problems with displaying the content. Konqueror is free software and it is likely to be fixed; AFAIK the fix is already there but I am not sure whether the fix has made it into the installer yet. I am not following that issue any more because I switched back to Windows (accidentally). Probably not.

Yecril 09:31, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

Yes that's what I meant(I left the comment 2 minutes after your edit so figured you would guess). In answer to your second question, I monitor about 2000 math articles. There are going to be some general typesetting changes to the mediawiki software...but don't expect anything substantial for another year or so. BTW I am a member of WP:WPM, you should consider joining up. Cheers--Cronholm¹⁴⁴ 16:30, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

I did, and I did some clean up. Yecril 22:38, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Please use English for communicating with other editors

Hi, I notice that you commonly use (I think?) Polish in your edit comments. Please use English — this is the English Wikipedia, and you should assume that comments in other languages will be unintelligible to most other editors.

—Steven G. Johnson (talk) 14:00, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

My policy on filling INPUT controls to use the language of the label; if that is not right, please revert the label to English. Thanks. --Yecril (talk) 14:05, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

As I understand it, the label language is set by your user preferences (click the "my preferences" at the top to change it). Every editor can get the UI labels in their preferred language, but that doesn't mean that every editor should edit in their own language! When communicating with other editors (which is what the edit comments are for!!) on the English Wikipedia, you need to use English. Isn't this self-evident? —Steven G. Johnson (talk) 15:18, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

It is self-evident that, in general, you should reply in the language of the question if you only can. Therefore labels of input controls that solicit information from the editor should be presented in English, regardless of user preferences. --Yecril (talk) 15:29, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Complain to the MediaWiki user-interface team then, and in the meantime change your user preferences to give English labels if you feel that way. (Note that, out of the thousands of Wikipedia editors I've interacted with, you are the first person who claims not to understand that the language of communication on this wiki is English and who uses non-English edit comments. Your argument is, frankly, not credible.) As you are obviously capable of writing in English, the fact that you persist in writing Polish comments to English-speaking editors on the English Wikipedia seems deliberately obtuse and uncooperative. I ask you again: please stop. —Steven G. Johnson (talk) 15:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I do understand that the language of communication is English. The problem is the MediaWiki UI team apparently did not foresee the inconsistency they introduced. How do I contact them? Or could you point them to this discussion? --Yecril (talk) 15:49, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Village pump (technical) and the Wikimedia BugZilla. And please stop using non-English edit comments, which I notice you are still doing even though you acknowledge that "the language of communication is English". —Steven G. Johnson (talk) 16:08, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

I have created an entry on the Village pump. I seek your permission to use Polish for demonstration purposes on my talk page and for entries relevant to this topic. --Yecril (talk) 16:22, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

It's not a question of "permission," it's a question of courtesy and common sense. Of course you can use Polish quotations for illustration purpose in discussing the UI on your talk page etc. You just shouldn't use Polish for anything other editors should expect to understand (edit comments, section headers, etc.). Again, this should be self-evident. —Steven G. Johnson (talk) 01:32, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

In that case your complaint about my still doing it lacks evidence. --Yecril (talk) 10:38, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Now you're being dishonest — a quick look at your edit history reveals that every single one of your recent edits (including the one for your response just now!) has an edit summary in Polish. What's the matter with you? —Steven G. Johnson (talk) 14:57, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

You have conceded two exceptions and all my recent edits, including this one, incidentally qualify as such. --Yecril (talk) 15:05, 7 June 2008 (UTC)