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* User talk:Patrick/September 2003 - January 2005
* User talk:Patrick/September 2002 - August 2003
== Template:Province South Holland ==
Dear Patrick,
I noticed you are the main contributor to the Template:Province South Holland. Personally I find the present template a little ugly. Moreover it takes a lot of screen-space, and isn't in line with the templates for the other Dutch provinces. Therefore I am planning to change it to look something like this: Template:Province North Holland p (did you make that one as well?). That way it will be more in line with the layout of the other Dutch province-templates, while retaining both the usefull map of the province (although someone might want to replace it with a less-pixeled one at some point) and the links. What do you think of my plan? If you agree, I will make this change and then put this template on all South Holland municipality pages.
By the way, do you know why Template:Province South Holland p exist and what the p stands for? I don't see the difference between this template and Template:Province South Holland. Am I missing something?
--User:Hippalus 00:02, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)
:The current versions are Template:Province South Holland 2p with two parameters and Template:Province South Holland 3p with three: the latter is only used for municipality names with spaces; the third parameter is the name of the municipality with + for every space, which is needed for the MapQuest link. The other two templates are old versions, with instructions for the user to easily edit the page to include the new one. If you create a new version, you could either have again two versions, or use always three parameters.
:On my screen Template:Province North Holland p wastes space on the right; in a large font this makes the text unnecessarily high, so please try to avoid that. Also, please do not make the map too small.--User:Patrick 00:27, Feb 2, 2005 (UTC)
:See also Template talk:Province South Holland 3p.--User:Patrick 09:41, Feb 23, 2005 (UTC)
== UN database... ==
Hi Patrick, I just noticed that the UN has inserted one article that was written partly by you into their database: [http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc-cgi/idc_cgi_isapi.dll?IdcService=DOC_INFO&dID=21693] for further information
Actions:
Content ID : UNPAN019581
Revision: 1
Type: APCITY - Asia and Pacific
Title: Focus on Disaster Reduction: Tsunami Warning Systems
Author: APCITY
*Content Type: Case Studies
Area of Focus: Disaster Management
Full Title/ Monographic Title (Max 255 Characters): Focus on Disaster Reduction: Tsunami Warning Systems
Document Author(s): Wikipedia
ISBN(020):
*Language(041): English
Call Number(080):
Place of Publication(260a): United States
Publisher Name(260b): http://en.wikipedia.org/
*Date of Publication(260c): 01/08/2005
*Number of Pages/ Size of File(300): 3
Physical Medium(340): Computer file
Notes(500):
Abstract(520): This paper brief introduces the regional and the international
tsunami warning systems, as well as tsunami detection, warming conveying, and the
shortcoming of the systems.
Geographic keywords(650): Asia/Pacific
Thematic keywords(651): Tsunami, Disaster reduction
Date of Meeting/Mission(811):
Place of Meeting/Mission(811$c):
Conference_Short_Title:
Security Group: Public
Checked Out By:
Status: Released
Formats: application/msword
Yours, :de:Benutzer:Mathias Schindler
== Gangleri, back again ==
* Halló Patrick! I was long time away from bugzilla. During last weeks I was mainly at :ro: where I am an administrator now, at :eo: where I applied for adminship and travelling at all the other places.
** Welcome back!--User:Patrick 00:31, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
=== question about localurl, PAGENAME, PAGENAMEE ===
* At :ro:Discuţie Format:TOCcat I describe a problem using "''localurl''" together with UNICODE characters. Is this a known problem? Do you have a bugzilla number for it?
** Use PAGENAME with single E within localurl, I think that works.--User:Patrick 00:31, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
=== Where are the subcategories ===
* Another "''strange''" behaviour I experienced with subcategories, when more then 200 objects are in the category. To my understanding all of the subcategories should be displayed whatever value is set for the "''from=''" parameter.
** A page with e.g. the articles in the name range Leiden-Rotterdam also shows the subcategories in that range. A message like "There is 1 subcategory to this category." refers to that name range. Rather confusing, I think.--User:Patrick 00:45, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
:: It is realy confusing. It is the nature of bug fixing, changes, improuvements etc. to provide somthing new. Nevertheless changes to the "''look and feel''" should be done carefully. As it is now subcategories are hidden regardless if "''from=''" is used or not. Because I get involved more and more to link objects / pages from other namespaces then articles (i.e. categories, projects, help, ect.) I have difficulkties to "''find"'' / "''identify''" the subcategories. Regardless of how the technical solution would be (showing subcategories at all pages, showing them when no parameter is used, having an additional parameter "''subcategories''") something should be done here. I have not followed discussions at bugzilla:1 long time. If nothing is there on this subject a feature request should be issued. Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 10:23, 2005 Feb 5 (UTC)
:: See also bugzilla:1211
=== other questions ===
*At :ro: we plan to use geografical datas about 13.800 places in Romania. Best would be to have a database somewhere at a WikiMedia server. How can we achieve this? What access can we have? What tools should we use?
*What tools are available to use the MediaWiki software as a front end to a database?
*I need 4-5 very simple extensions. Who could write them? Should I ask at wikitech-l ?
*I made the category :ro:Categorie:Gre%C5%9Feli_cunoscute_%C3%AEn_Wikipedia and :eo:Kategorio:Konataj eraroj en Vikipedio where I link to reference pages.
*Thanks for all you efforts in advance. Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 22:34, 2005 Feb 4 (UTC)
=== answer regarding localurl, PAGENAME, PAGENAMEE ===
* Thanks for the hint to use PAGENAME and not PAGENAMEE at the mentioned template. I added comments at :ro:Discuţie Format:TOCcat too.
* What is happening now is that PAGENAMEE is context depended: It has a different behaviour if it used inside "''localurl''" or not. That is confusing, another "''just have to know''". Please do not understand me wrong: I am happy to have a working solution but it would be more helpfull, if all other users experimenting with this would save time because the behaviour would be straight forward. Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 10:23, 2005 Feb 5 (UTC)
** PAGENAMEE is not context-dependent, but localurl cannot handle the coded form, with %-signs, etc., that PAGENAMEE produces.--User:Patrick 21:15, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
* Please see bugzilla:1649. Thanks! User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 12:30, 2005 Mar 7 (UTC)
=== How to find the subcategory ===
* Dear Patrick, please see :sr:Википедија:Tests for Корисник:Bonzo. If you think it's worth to make a help page at meta: and / or at :en: out of these informations feel free and let me know. Maybe there are issues you would add. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 22:59, 2005 Feb 17 (UTC)
: Thanks. Most was already more or less in m:Help:Category. One idea I just added, and I also linked to your page.--User:Patrick 23:27, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
:: See also bugzilla:1211 and bugzilla:1212
==wikitravel:==
*Thanks Patrick for the answers so far. I forgot to ask about InterWiki links to the language versions for wikitravel::
**de: http://wikitravel.org/de/artikel/
**fr: http://wikitravel.org/fr/article/
**ro: http://wikitravel.org/ro/articol/
**sv: http://wikitravel.org/sv/artikel/
*On the [http://wiki.lenauschule.de community wiki] I made (with version 1.37) I inserted InterWiki lines in the database. In order to avoid there the translation of pagenames using unicode trough :en: I added entries as wikipedia_ro: etc. Doing this I could write directly wikipedia_ro:Bucureşti.
*About the InterWiki table I have the following questions:
**Are all Wikimedia projects using the same InterWiki table?
**Who maintains them / it?
**wikitravel:de, wikitravel:fr:, wikitravel:ro, wikitravel:sv fails. Is it a bug of how InterWikis work, is it a wrong configuration, is it easy to fix?
*I made a redirect from wikitravel:ro to http://wikitravel.org/ro/articol/Portal . This will not solve the problem but I think it will not harm. ... I could see, that this redirect is only the half solution because it does not make the redirect. At least it shows where to continue.
*If you do not have a better solution until now. You may make the similar redirects also as following:
**wikitravel:de: to http://wikitravel.org/de/artikel/Hauptseite
**wikitravel:fr: to http://wikitravel.org/fr/article/Accueil
**wikitravel:sv: to http://wikitravel.org/sv/artikel/Huvudsida
**Note: Normally for all projects there are redirects from "''Main Page''" with capital "P" to the main page. This is not the case for http://wikitravel.org/fr/article/Main_Page etc.
*Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 08:49, 2005 Feb 5 (UTC)
::I found [http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/wikipedia/phase3/maintenance/interwiki.sql], but it does not contain wikitravel, so there must be a newer version.
::I do not think I can answer your remaining questions, sorry.--User:Patrick 10:15, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I think the most helpful person on this is likely to be brion ([http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk%3ABrion_VIBBER]). He took care of all international issues for a long time. User:Anthere
:The (off-project) interwiki prefixes for our wikis are updated from the list maintained here: meta:Interwiki map.
:It would be convenient if there's a single point on WikiTravel which can be used as a redirector for each language on WikiTravel in the wikitravel:: style; you might check there and ask Evan if they have such or want to set one up. --User:Brion VIBBER 22:39, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
:Now it is up to Evan. See User talk:EvanProdromou#InterWiki to wikitravel:xx. Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 23:11, 2005 Feb 8 (UTC)
::It'll take me some time to get to it, but I would actually prefer to have our articles at http://wikitravel.org// rather than http://wikitravel.org///. I actually have some scheduled downtime to make this change tomorrow, so that's a possibility. I'll update here on Thu EST with more info. --User:EvanProdromou 00:50, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
:::Done. All our articles are now at http://wikitravel.org/{language code}/{title}. Feel free to use that form for the redirector. --User:EvanProdromou 03:28, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
::::I'm confused how wikitravel:: is going to become http://wikitravel.org// . I don't get how to set that up on the Interwiki map. --User:EvanProdromou 04:42, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
* Thanks Evan! I put a note also at Wikipedia talk:Interlanguage links#Interlinking with WikiTravel. Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 09:35, 2005 Feb 9 (UTC)
* Links wikitravel:de:, wikitravel:fr:, wikitravel:ro:, wikitravel:sv: corrected above. User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 18:06, 2005 Feb 20 (UTC)
So, what changed here? I don't see any actual movement on this. Considering that I was getting emails and user talk page messages several times a day when this first came up, I'm disappointed to see the lack of action. --User:EvanProdromou 18:30, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
==Some Esperanto specialities==
*Halló Patrick, I was surprised about some special interlanguage links. Please take a look at the abstract at :eo:Vikipedio:Sciindaĵoj#doublex. You probably know the best if this documented already or where to document it if is not the case.
*There are lots of people "''making''" (adding, fixing etc.) interlanguage (and InterWiki) links, some manualy other using a bot. Probably there are some channels to inform them (or to mention it in a further release of the bot tools). Thanks and regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 01:09, 2005 Feb 8 (UTC)
**Thanks, I added this to a few pages on Meta, including m:Interwiki bot.--User:Patrick 22:53, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
*Halló Patrick, I continued to work at the doublex issues at :eo: and made important additions to :eo:Vikipedio:Sciindaĵoj#doublex. The page contains more then 3 error reports with comments in English and Esperanto. Some of the errors might be subsequent as those mentioned together with the "''watchlist''".
===Introducing an unique escape character / meta character===
*It is always the same story when the special character is included in the set of allowed characters and no meta character is available. Coding "CXX" etc. is tricky because what looks as "CX" at :eo: is already coded there as "CXx". Having more then two "x"-es will confuse the parser / the preview / whatever because if it would understand / could differentiate "CxXx" from "CXxX" it would not know what to do with "Cxxx".
*I think there should be a "''escape''" character "" which should be used "before" the "''real''" "X" / "x". So Aldous HUXLEY, eo:Aldous HUXLEY and xx:Aldous Huxley should be used at database level and at all functions involved. Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 08:21, 2005 Feb 9 (UTC)
:I made some tools and used them at :eo:Vikipediisto:Gangleri/tests/projektoj/duobla x-o in order to save some time fixing the interlanguage links, verifying if all required redirects are there, have some useful links to google etc. 08:27, 2005 Feb 9 (UTC)
===bugzilla:1512===
*Halló Patrick, I reported some of these problems at bugzilla:1512 referencing to :eo:Vikipedio:Bugzilla 1512 (which includes a :eo:Vikipedio:Bugzilla 1512#Newly discovered bugs section) and here.
*As soon as I read (and understand) some of the http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=pywikipediabot-users messages I will post a message for sourceforge:projects/pywikipediabot. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 12:35, 2005 Feb 12 (UTC
==Missing interlanguage links==
* Halló Patrick, [http://www.google.com/search?num=100&lr=&newwindow=1&q=%2Bsite%3A.wikipedia.org+%22warnings%22+%22does+not+link+to%22 google &q=+site:.wikipedia.org+"warnings"+"does+not+link+to"] lists a lot of interesting pages. It seems they have been moved / deleted. Do you know anything about this? Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 09:49, 2005 Feb 9 (UTC)
** No, I don't know about this. It seems the missing interlanguage links have been added, I checked w:1930.--User:Patrick 22:35, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
* There are some "''warnfiles''" at meta:Image:Warnfiles-de-2005-02-17.zip.ogg. User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 18:06, 2005 Feb 20 (UTC)
==Reuse of template name==
Since it wasn't linked from anywhere, I guessed you weren't using it any more and stole Template:An for my own Wikipedia:Footnote3. If you still want it, feel free to steal it back. User:Mozzerati 20:49, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)
:That's OK, when I need a template like that again, I choose another name.--User:Patrick 22:20, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
== The Netherlands ==
I had tried to move it before, but the Wiki would not let me. That's why I listed it at WP:RM. Thanks for moving it. 12:59, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
== Michael Jackson ==
Hello, would you tell me why you reverted my edits to Michael Jackson? The way it was organised previously is ugly, off place, and there is information all over the place. Your revert helped nothing. User:PZFUN 01:48, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
:I am not saying that the whole edit is wrong, but, as I referred to in the edit summary, the section One More Chance was a strange mix of two former sections, apparently an error. Please fix that, then I look at your edit again.--User:Patrick 02:18, Feb 24, 2005 (UTC)
== bugzilla:65 ==
* Halló Patrick! I just want to let you know about bugzilla:1591 a duplicate of bugzilla:65. See also User:Gangleri/tests/bugzilla:1691. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 15:09, 2005 Feb 26 (UTC)
** Both bug#65 and bug#563 are fixed now. See bugzilla:65#c17 and bugzilla:563#c11. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 12:11, 2005 Feb 28 (UTC)
== The Multimap scale bug ==
Is not as simple as you'd think. Multimap only supports a specific range of scales, so you cant use {}. So there needs to be a {}. -- User:Egil 11:59, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
:That would be better, but at least it works now for the allowed scales, and for other scales you get the Multimap page for the given location anyway, and you just have to specify a scale then.--User:Patrick 12:21, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
::Fixed it now. -- User:Egil 16:34, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
:::Thanks.--User:Patrick 08:41, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
==Arm image==
Thanks for high-resolution photo of ... arm. I hope it stays up for a few days. User:Sfahey 18:58, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
I removed the photograph :Image:Demi2.JPG from this article, mainly because an encyclopedia should have a more relevant picture to describe an arm but also because it is has no license attached. Regards, User:Thuresson 02:31, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
:The first argument should imply that you replace it by a picture that you think is better.--User:Patrick 08:45, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
== :en:Wikipedia:Template:Interwikiconflict ==
* Helló Patrick! Please take a look at :en:Wikipedia:Template:Interwikiconflict. Would be happy to know your opinion and possible support about this. Thanks in advance! Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 14:26, 2005 Mar 6 (UTC)
**Interesting. You can ask operators of these bots.--User:Patrick 20:35, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
== :en:Wikipedia:Template:Invalidtitle ==
* Helló Patrick! I wait for Brions comment regarding :en:Wikipedia:Template:Invalidtitle. It seams that the actual version does not prevent creating these titles (containing %9A etc.) at Latin-1 wikis, see User:Gangleri/tests/Aš. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 17:35, 2005 Mar 6 (UTC)
== Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates ==
I have had some time to think, and see we may have different opinions on how maps should be treated. I really think the type of map pointers used for the Geography of the Pitcairn Islands is bad for a good number of reasons. I have no intention of contesting what you are doing there directly. But I will just say that it is in direct opposition to my visions and goals about the treatment of maps on Wikipedia. I will thus oppose such templates being supported by the Geo coor project proper. They really distract me, and I also think they distract the vision, and the path to get there. (Don't misunderstand: It is very cool that people use the coor template in templates, and if they do, the articles will behave properly in terms of the concept of linking geograpical coordinates.) -- User:Egil 09:32, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
The above came out more like from a judge of World Idol -- give me some time, and I'll come up with something more constructive. -- User:Egil 10:20, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
:Okay.--User:Patrick 10:26, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Here goes:
# Avoiding having direct links to external map sources, like Mapquest, was exactly one of the visions of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates.
# I have thus moved your discussion about such mechanisms to the project talk page.
# I am pretty convinced that direct links in articles to Mapquest et al needs to be placed under the "External links" heading
-- User:Egil 08:39, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
== Character encoding ==
* Halló Patrick! Please see User talk:R. fiend#Egill Skallagrímsson. What character encoding is required? What do you recommend? Thanks in advance! Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 01:55, 2005 Mar 8 (UTC)
: Thanks Patrick for Egill Skallagrímsson! I planed to work on "''stealth links''" (foo edit here Talk:Egill Skallagrímsson / editTalk:Egill Skallagrímsson here), their usage at :de: and possible other "''applications''" but I was puzzeled with a lot of other issues / "''just to knows''", most of them new to me see User:Gangleri/tests/unknown. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 09:00, 2005 Mar 8 (UTC)
== Did you know that ... ==
* Special:Whatlinkshere/Image talk:Al-Idrisi's world map.JPG works fine and
* Special:Whatlinkshere/Image:Al-Idrisi's world map.JPGnot?
* Special:Recentchangeslinked/Image talk:Al-Idrisi's world map.JPG works fine and
* Special:Recentchangeslinked/Image:Al-Idrisi's world map.JPGnot?
* See User talk:SimonP#Image:Al-Idrisi's world map.JPG. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 15:33, 2005 Mar 8 (UTC)
* :nl:Overleg gebruiker:Andre Engels#no:.2C nb: and skanwiki (maybe interesting for :en:Wikipedia:Interlanguage links etc.) 08:52, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)
** See feedback at :nn:Wikipedia-diskusjon:Interwikilenkjer#skanwiki - abstract or brief translation. Thanks 11:10, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)
== Redirects and inclusions - minor differences ==
* Halló Patrick, I have seen some strange coding and want to write about it. Please add the relevant information to the documentation and recommendations wherever applicable.
* There are four (disambiguation) templates:
# :nn:Mal:Peikar includes :nn:Mal:Fleirtyding
# :no:Mal:Peker is included in :no:Mal:Disambig
* What side effects are caused when you use an inclusion and not a redirect?
# a redirect is identified as such without editing, an inclusion not
# an inclusion will probably generate at least one additional line in the current (08:01, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)) MediaWiki software
# anchors would work with inclusions but not with redirects
# if the included title contains interlanguage links, this will cause conflicts and confuse bots
# there is a significat difference ragarding inclusion in categories; redirects are not automaticaly included unless this is specified in the first line; this feature does not work at the moment (11:09, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)) see bugzilla:nnnn
# ...
* Personaly I prefer redirects. Please comment. Thanks in advance. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 08:01, 2005 Mar 13 (UTC)
::Yes, redirects seem better, see also m:Help:Template#Redirection.--User:Patrick 10:31, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
== Changes to geographical coordinates ==
Due to further requirements and enhancements in the concept of coordinates, it seems changes will be necessary.
Obsolete templates are being phased out, and in the long run, there may be a new mechanism. It should not be extra work, because as long as the existing templates are used, changes will happen automatically. -- User:Egil 18:11, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)
== inline links at commons: to nonexisting images ==
* Halló Patrick, I am surprised that inline links at commons: to nonexisting images does not show "''red''". Is this a bug? Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 21:06, 2005 Mar 17 (UTC)
**They are as usual for me.--User:Patrick 21:23, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
**: It maight be that this is usual for you but links to most of the other namespaces behave differently.
* Halló Patrick, Please take a look at meta:Inline Linking. I was searching some documentation for a friend regarding inline linking (using a start colon) for interlanguage links, categories, images etc.
# Where can I find that information? I searched meta:Special:Allpages/Inl, the Help and Meta namespaces.
# meta:Inline Linking (corectly meta:Inline linking) refers more to inline inclusion of images. This page is misleading.
* Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 22:24, 2005 Mar 17 (UTC)
**I made a brief overview m:Help:Link#Special_effects_of_links.--User:Patrick 23:34, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)
**: Thanks Patrick! User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 00:00, 2005 Mar 18 (UTC)
== "Sex in Advertising" rename ==
Hello Patrick, I am sorry but the impromptu change in name for this article seems to me uncalled for and harmful. First of all, the old title is a _technical term_ in the advertising business, describing precisely the argument of the article. Your new title takes the topical title and adds a subset to it, since nudity is certainly NOT mandatory in sex in advertising - it is simply one of the tools of the trade. Thus it confuses and reduces the reach of the old title. If you want an analogy, it is like taking an article titled "British Navy" and renaming it "Battleships and the British Navy." Furthermore, Yahoo returned 15600 hits for the old title and three hits for the new one. The net effect of this change is to make the article less accessible to users. Please undo it, because I do not know how. (PS I am posting this in the article discussion page as well.) User:Haiduc 12:08, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
:Since somebody argued about a nude picture that it was not sexual, I thought I make the title more general, and add a more objective criterion. But if others agree with you I will change it back.--User:Patrick 12:24, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
::Patrick, quite aside from the fact that Beland and I had only begun to discuss the various aspects of that picture - making any changes by anyone untimely - you seem to be under the impression that the picture is in the article. It is not. It is on another website. So since there really is no imaginable justification for your otherwise well-intentioned action, and since there are a number of very valid arguments for its inappropriateness, please undo your name change, and then if there is a consensus for change I am sure it will be implemented. But please do not arbitrarily create a fait accompli and then set preconditions for restoring the status quo. It is still not clear to me how you can come into an article and arbitrarily change the title without according the other editors the elementary consideration of previous discussion and debate. I look forward to a long and interesting collaboration here with you, but I hope that it will be based on some sense of collegial give-and-take. User:Haiduc 18:40, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC) (copied from article discussion page)
:::Thank you, Patrick. Please feel free to comment on anything. User:Haiduc 02:27, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
== Tables ==
* Halló Patrick! Please take a look at Dobermann/Temp. The surrounding text is to closed to the seccond and third tables. Is there a way to change this. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 05:41, 2005 Mar 21 (UTC)
**I don't know whether there is an easier way, but for one way see m:Help:Table#Space around a table.2C image.2C or text.--User:Patrick 21:31, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* Thanks Patrick for the hint! I spend more then two hours without success. "''align=left''" is used at Dobermann/Temp#Appearance. The page has many errors depending of the window size and your bowser — I use Mozilla Firefox.
* I did not manage to bring the surrownding text more away from the table:
# [ no border] around the original table
# [ border surrounding dummy column] — I have no idea how to suppress the border
* Another problem is that the first table at Dobermann/Temp#Appearance will interfear regarding "''align=left''" with the next following table. Just resize the window to see this.
* Do you have any clue what could be done here? Thanks for your efforts. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 18:41, 2005 Mar 21 (UTC)
::Please note the updated link above, did you try that?--User:Patrick 01:37, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* Thanks Patrick! I changed Dobermann/Temp#Appearance succesfuly regarding "''Space around a table, image, or text''".
* Regarding "''Another problem is that the first table at Dobermann/Temp#Appearance will interfear regarding "''align=left''" with the next following table. Just resize the window to see this.''" You can see this only if you have a very large monitor or you edit the section "''Appearance''" and make a preview in a large window. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 04:24, 2005 Mar 22 (UTC)
**Use before the second table. On en: we also have Template:-, so you can use .--User:Patrick 08:30, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
== unknown behaviour of templates ==
* Halló Patrick! I am involved in the translation of meta:Wikimania texts into Esperanto, see meta:Special:Allpages/Translation requests/Wikimania.
* Please take a look at meta:User:Gangleri/tests/Wikimania 01. I would like to know if this is a bug or not, if it is specific to meta: or not, maybe it is new since version 1.4.0. Thanks in advance for your efforts. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 21:32, 2005 Mar 21 (UTC)
:This looks normal, m:Translation requests/Wikimania/Template:Browse/Eo: is not in the template namespace but in the main namespace.--User:Patrick 01:36, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* Thanks Patrick! I never tried an inclusion of objects from the article namespace (only from project or user namespaces).
* Hound exists; generates . I learned somthing new. Thanks User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 04:28, 2005 Mar 22 (UTC)
== Bad titles ==
* Halló Patrick! What is your opinion about User:Gangleri/tests/sister projects? Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 02:22, 2005 Mar 24 (UTC)
**The logic is not always clear.--User:Patrick 08:56, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
**: Thanks Patrick! Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 11:11, 2005 Mar 24 (UTC)
== Watchlist requests ==
hey, try to be patient with watchlists ;-) when you load 10 or 20 queries onto database, it is not going to work any faster, thanks! User:Midom 12:01, 2005 Mar 28 (UTC)
:I rarely do more than one watchlist request and one or two other requests at the same time.--User:Patrick 08:57, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
==Map==
Have you looked at the enlarged versions of those maps? User:Jooler
:Yes, my comments refer to the full versions.--User:Patrick 11:16, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
== Wabi-sabi (source of text?) ==
Please see Talk:Wabi-sabi, but the gist of it is... I have (hopefully temporarily) removed a bunch of text from the Wabi-sabi article you created because it ''appears'' the text was copied verbatim from http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/artcurr/asian/wabisabi.html . It was good text, and maybe I'm mistaken, so if you can give some feedback, that would be great... --User:Ds13 06:14, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)
:At the time I copied it from http://www.capitancook.com/articles/index.php?WabiSabi (which does not have that content anymore) assuming that it was under GFDL. I don't know more about its copyright status.--User:Patrick 09:38, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
::Thanks for the response. I noticed you did include the [http://www.art.unt.edu/ntieva/artcurr/asian/wabisabi.html unt.edu] link when you created the article, and that's where the text ''appeared'' to come from when I (only recently) looked at the article. The old chicken and egg question...! Anyways, I guess better safe than sorry when it comes to GFDL... Cheers. --User:Ds13 18:04, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)
== some questions ==
* Halló Patrick!
# I was surprised about commons:User:Gangleri/tests#inline links to image namespace. It seems that the image namespace behaves quite different, remember #Did you know that ... we discussed this already at #inline links at commons: to nonexisting images
# I am puzzeled about voting policy. Some Wikipedias require between others n edits (in the article namespace). I see no way to count the number of edits if a user worked some weeks on an article which is deleted later. Do you know better?
::Yes, that is a problem. These edits can only be seen by a sysop in the "deleted" page history.--User:Patrick 13:43, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
# It seems that there has been a change regarding the "''watchlist''" functionality. If I watch "''foo''" which is moved to "''bar''" the last is no longer in my "''watchlist''". It seems to me that this is a change since the last version(s). Is this true or just a wrong "''feeling''"?
::I just tried it out, I moved a page I watch while logged in as another user: both the old and new name are on the watchlist of my normal username.--User:Patrick 14:13, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)
* Thanks in advance for all your efforts. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 13:31, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)
: Thank you very much!
* I learned somthing new about duplicates and bugzilla:1202: See
# :nl:Overleg gebruiker:Andre Engels#Categorie:Roemeens district and bugzilla:1202
# :ro:Discuţie Utilizator:Gangleri#duplicats
# [http://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&type=delete&user=&page= Deletion log at nl:]
* Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 14:55, 2005 Mar 31 (UTC)
== Template:Link ==
Why does Template:Link use external link style instead of internal link style?
I think the template should contain: {} and thus produce a link in internal link style. The current form seems misleading to me as I would expect an external link to lead to an external site. However, I am reluctant to change it in case it is used somewhere which depends on or prefers it in its current form. (And there seems to be no way to tell where a template is used.)
If the template needs to stay as it is then I will simply use Template:ilink for internal links in the internal link style. I do think the current form of Template:Link is interesting. Perhaps it could be moved to wlinkx ("a wiki internal piped link in external link style")?
- User:Pioneer-12 22:24, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:It is no longer needed due to a software update, earlier internal link style for a link depending on a parameter always led to the edit page.--User:Patrick 22:59, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
::Ah, that explains things. And aha, "what links here" DOES show where a template is used (I could swear it didn't do that before.... but that was months ago.) I wonder if the link template is TOTALLY unnecessary. It seems like it might be useful for utility purposes. - User:Pioneer-12 23:09, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:::I blanked it for now, but you are welcome to restore and use it, of course.--User:Patrick 23:35, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== Some notes about redirects ==
* at the end of :uk:Обговорення користувача:Gutsul#link to en:Wikipedia:Administrators
*# redirects to the special namespace do not work automaticaly
*# redirects using "''standard''" names for namespaces as "''project''" behave "''displays''" differently in "''&action=edit''" and in "''&redirect=no''"
* #REDIRECT [[foo] with one ending bracket workd
* ...
* Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 08:48, 2005 Apr 25 (UTC)
== Some notes about interwiki / interlanguage links ==
* multiple prefixes :ru:en:User:Patrick will not fail
* :ru:Google:Patrick generates a bad title
* ...
* Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 08:45, 2005 Apr 25 (UTC)
== Some special templates ==
* :it:Discussioni template:Vuoto#msg:vuoto
* ...
* Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 19:32, 2005 Apr 25 (UTC)
:I do not understand your point. Perhaps you are confused by an existing page containing the message about the non-existence of a page?--User:Patrick 00:03, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:: Yes, that's the point. People can insert the template at an arbitrary title and "''at the first view''" you can not see the difference. I tried to make such a "''empty''" page at :de: but :de:MediaWiki:Noarticletext is using many different templates. Finaly I continued to work on other items. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 08:35, 2005 Apr 26 (UTC)
== Some notes about MediaWiki ==
* namespaces: strange behaviour at :oc:Utilisator:Gangleri/tests
* Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 12:58, 2005 Apr 27 (UTC)
::So "wikipedia:" works the same as "project;" I tried it on fr:, there it also works like that, but on Meta it goes to w:en.--User:Patrick 21:23, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
* Thanks for the help Patrick! I was asked about the difference between und . I found [http://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&num=100&q=+site:wikipedia.org+localurle some links with google] but you know that the informations maight not be up to date. I asked "''Wegge''" at irc://irc.freenode.net/mediawiki but the answer was more "''It maight be that ...''". If he read this and verfies the code Wegge should answer here.
: The only difference between localurl: and localurle: is that the latter calls the PHP function htmlspecialchars() on the output of the former. By experimenting with various combinations of localurl(e) and PAGENAME(E), I have been unable to spot the difference. I think the origin of localurle is buried somewhere in the more sinister past of the Parser. -- User:Wegge 09:30, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:: Reminder: There are severel bugs known with localurl:
::# {{localurl:|foo}} will generate broken links for pages containing space(s); see bugzilla:1649 and use {{localurl:|foo}}
::# {{localurl:bar|foobar}} will generate broken links, ; see bugzilla:1649 (I used [{{localurl::Gangleri|action=history}} Th] == [{{localurl::Gangleri|action=history}} Th] earlier in my signature) and use
:: Suggestion: as long as the "''behaviour''" of localurle: is not "''known''" I suggest to use localurl: and see what happens &ndash User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 17:23, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
* Hopefully 2 -3 actual examples can be provided
** :en:MediaWiki:Mailnologintext &ndash :zh-min-nan:MediaWiki:Mailnologintext ([http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org history])
*** Notes:
**** :en:MediaWiki:Mailnologintext shows an example generating "''broken HTML links''"
**** [http://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org oldid=11211] seems to be the example
**** It seams that the settings of the current WikiMedia foundation projects are configurated that way that MediaWiki:Mailnologintext would never be displayed. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 17:40, 2005 Apr 30 (UTC)
** ... (here) ...
** See
**# [http://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&num=100&q=+site:meta.wikimedia.org+localurle meta.wikimedia.org and localurle] – mainly pages as LanguageFoo.php
**# zh-min-nan:User:Gangleri/tests
* Please include some notes at meta:Variable
* Thanks to all for the help and support! Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 08:55, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
: I've cited an actual example and put it above. I see no principled reason why one instance of Special: would use one while another would use the other. User:A-giau 10:38, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
== Some notes about documentation ==
* Halló Patrick! Please follow [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Toiminnot:Whatlinkshere/Template:Documentation unknown documentation]. I would be happy if you log in to [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/ Nuka-Wiki] (verion 1.5). Just use the English user interface. Thanks in advance! Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 20:29, 2005 May 13 (UTC)
* Please see [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Category:PAGENAMEE Category:PAGENAMEE]. PAGENAMEE is not equivalent to <underscore>PAGENAME</underscore>. I never made such tests before but you can see now that all (?) characters which are not 7bit ASCII are "''converted''" to UNICODE (?). Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 21:52, 2005 May 31 (UTC)
== More questions ==
* Halló Patrick! This night I used <pre> – </pre> the first time. But at commons:User:Gangleri/sandbox/Common errors I have a problem with the "''layout''". Could you please give me a hand. The OK shuld have the same orientation as not OK. Thanks in advance! Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 17:30, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
* Halló Patrick! I have a problem wich "''anchors''" which I experienced for quite a long time. Please do the following:
# go at :eo:Vikipedio:Trukoj/Plurnivela uzado de ŝablonoj#plibonigoj
# remember the text: "''Eble Brion povas plifaciligi la aferon jene:''"
# edit the section "plibonigoj"
# you will see "''Redaktante Vikipedio:Trukoj/Plurnivela uzado de ŝablonoj (sekcion)''" – this is the "next" section
* The page is quite huge. The problem may relate to "''additional anchors''" defined similar to <font id="foo">. I searched " id" in the browser but could not find it. Please let a note here if you can identify the "''problem''". Thank you in advance for all your efforts. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 23:20, 2005 Apr 28 (UTC)
* FYI: About :es:Usuario Discusión:Pilaf#Live Preview again
** Please note that "''<font id="Live Preview again" />''" does not give the same result / the same anchor as "''<font id="Live_Preview_again" />''". User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 10:52, 2005 Apr 30 (UTC)
* FYI:rendering (?) problem at :su:User:Gangleri/tests#interlanguage links == bugzilla:2029User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 03:18, 2005 May 1 (UTC)
* Halló Patrick! I worked on bugzilla:531#c6 but I need to leave for some days. Could you please create some simple test examples regarding the usage of non 7bit characters in parameters in "''localurl''"? "''Örlög''" etc. fails as parameter in localurl:foo:{}.
::Seems to work fine, just do not use PAGENAMEE in localurl.--User:Patrick 08:32, 19 May 2005 (UTC)
:::: [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Template:Task Template:Task] failed / fails for titles like "''foo:Örlög''", "''Image:Þórsmörk Júli 1996.jpg''", "''User:הגולם''", "''User:נעבעך גוט משוגע''", "''User:Горан Анђелковић''".
:::: I replaced PAGENAMEE with PAGENAME in [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/mediawiki15c/index.php?title=Template:Linkset_here&action=edit Template:Linkset here] and [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/mediawiki15c/index.php?title=Template:Task_here&action=edit Template:Task here]. "''Linkset here''" now works properly but "''Task here''" does not. WHY? Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 12:02, 2005 May 19 (UTC)
:::::: Thanks for your help and sorry for the delay. I made yesterday about 800 edits "''to feel familiar again''" I still have no general solution for [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Template:Linkset_here Template:Linkset here] (calling [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Template:Linkset Template:Linkset]). An extension "underscore" would help to fix the problem and simplify everything.
* Would be happy to know if there are ways to simplify [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Template:Task Template:Task]. See also [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Toiminnot:Whatlinkshere/Template:Task] and [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Category:Todo]. Thanks in advance! Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 03:11, 2005 May 19 (UTC)
:I added some comments to the template talk pages, it seems some templates and parameters are superfluous.--User:Patrick 22:00, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
:: Thanks again! I answered at [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Template_talk:TASKLOCATIONTASKBODY] and [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Template_talk:TASKBODY/]. Yesterday I modified [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/mediawiki15c/index.php?title=Malline%3ATask&diff=5658&oldid=5374 Template:Task] mainly for the namespace "''special''" and because you may "''call''" / "''place''" the template whereever you like. I also changed priotity "''test''" to priotity "''sandbox''". Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 21:43, 2005 May 31 (UTC)
:: I am aware that "''Template:Task''" is complex because of what I called "''portability''" which contradicts "''localisation''". It is based on "''generic namespace names''" used also at "''Template:Sort order''" and derived variants. Probably it makes no sense to "''force''" the usage of "''generic namespace names''" for users others then developers. It makes neither sense in Italian, Spanish etc. nor in Russian, Hindi etc. Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 22:18, 2005 May 31 (UTC)
* Halló Patrick! I have written some notes about handling at [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Template:Task Template:Task] and will include bugzilla references later. Would be happy if you take a look at it. :it: wants to have the template transfered. I am especially interested about the idea having the "''todo pages''" and "''todo/priority pages''" in the template namespace. Thanks in advance and best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 12:33, 2005 Jun 6 (UTC)
* Halló Patrick! I worked all night at a [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Feedback RTL test wiki]. I will look at your work tonight. Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 11:19, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)
: Both wiki's will be offline until this weekend. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 18:37, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)
=== Template:Forced new line ===
* Halló Patrick! At "''Nukawiki''" I use
:
generating:
:
when used three times generating:
:
:
:
* to generate forced new lines mainly after templates. Before I experimented with "''<br clear="all" />''" and a number of empty lines or "''<br />''". I do not like it (press CTRL-A in the browser) but is / can be very efficient. Do you know another method / other methods?
* I can see that this does not work here (User talk:Patrick#Template:Forced new line). Please compare with [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/User:Gangleri/tests/sandbox#Template:Forced_new_line nukawiki:#Template:Forced new line]. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 17:33, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)
::I do not know, I never need more than just a new paragraph.--User:Patrick 22:49, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
::: Thanks anyway! assumed: "''i suspect tidy is removing them''" – "''what is tidy?''" – "''cleans the xhtml output''". Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 23:04, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)
==== using div ====
generating:
when used three times generating:
I hope(d) this works here. Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 01:58, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)
==== FiverAlpha ====
compare with [http://test.leuksman.com/index.php?title=User:Gangleri/tests/sandbox#Template:Forced_new_line leuksman:User:Gangleri/tests/sandbox#Template:Forced new line]
==== Template:Forced new line substitute ====
content is:
Would be happy if this is a valid substitute.
Have to test it at :en:.
Compare with [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/User:Gangleri/tests/sandbox#Template:Forced new line substitute nukawiki:User:Gangleri/tests/sandbox].
Best regards ~~~~
generating:
Would be happy if this is a valid substitute.
Have to test it at :en:.
Compare with [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/User:Gangleri/tests/sandbox#Template:Forced new line substitute nukawiki:User:Gangleri/tests/sandbox].
Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 09:37, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)
Thanks Patrick! Now we have something that works at :en: but *not* at Nuka-Wiki. Regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 17:34, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)
== list of items ==
* Halló Patrick! I will insert here some links. Best regards User:Gangleri | [ Th] | :Gangleri 01:49, 2005 Jun 4 (UTC)
** [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Betawiki:Variables#restrictions restrictions restrictions related to "history" and variable REVISIONID]
== Wageningen ==
you have added to the Wageningen page text about a penis-shaped memorial.
so far as I can tell this is an urban myth. There is nothing on the official Wageningen sites: http://www.4en5meiwageningen.nl & http://www.wageningen.nl/internet/index.jsp.
Do you have a source for this? - User:Plastic rat
:[http://www.wageningen.nl/internet/content.jsp?objectid=6633&highlights=monument&highlightradio=ja], [http://www.wageningen.nl/internet/content.jsp?objectid=6217&highlights=monument&highlightradio=ja], [http://www.nos.nl/nieuws/artikelen/2005/3/23/defallusvanwageningen.html].--User:Patrick 21:25, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Thankyou
User:Plastic rat
==Conversion from a parameter expression to a rendered parameter or conversely==
Hi! How can I "quote" the value of a parameter used in a template without generating wikicode? See [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Malline:Image] and [http://jadesukka.homelinux.org:8180/betawiki/Toiminnot:Whatlinkshere/Malline:Image]? Gangleri.
:I do not think conversion from a parameter expression to a rendered parameter or conversely is possible. It seems that, unfortunately, for a demo you have to use two parameters, one with and one without nowiki tags, like m:Template:T demo. Regards, User:Patrick 09:05, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
==Template:Todo test==
{| class="Talk-Notice"
|-
! rowspan="2" valign="top" |
! align="left" |
Wikipedia:To-do list for :[{{localurl::|action=purge}} :]
| align="right" | [{{localurl::/to_do|action=edit}} edit] - [{{localurl::/to_do|action=watch}} watch] - [{{localurl::|action=purge}} purge]
|-
| colspan="2" valign="top" style="background:#efefef; padding:5px; margin: 5px; border: 1px dotted black;" |
{{:/to_do}}
|}
==Image source==
Thank you for uploading :Image:Map North Holland with numbered municipalities.png. Its copyright status is unclear, so it may have to be deleted. Please leave a note on the image page about the source of the image. Thank you. --User:Alan Au 05:55, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
== TfD nomination of Template:Nu ==
Template:Nu has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Nu. Thank you. —