User talk:Galwhaa/Archive 4

USA today
Thanks! BTW, being the most-read newspaper in the US, I would expect the USA today to be better with their spelling than that. I mean, I'm sure they could have just ran it through Microsoft Word or something! ;) The Wookieepedian 03:21, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

AWB
Thanks for your help with AWB. It's working great, except for one thing: I can't get a list based on contribs for User:09i70o7nj0h. I get a list of contribs for me and for you, but none for 09i70o7nj0h. Is there a maximum edit age restriction, or something? TheJabberwock 05:31, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

It works fine for me, remember not to use the User: prefix, and note that it removes duplicates, so it will filter some out. Martin 00:07, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

That is odd, I have tweaked it slightly, so maybe it will work in the next release. Martin 00:15, 8 March 2006 (UTC)


 * That's good advice, good night. Martin 00:28, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
Nacon kantari  e |t||c|m 23:23, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

AWB favour
Hi Mathwiz2020, we have a bit of a problem at the moment, the latest version of AWB on CVS at the moment works fine for Adrian, but for me when it runs the interface is (strangly) all skewed off to one side, could you possibly update from cvs and see how it works for you when you have time, thanks Martin 19:02, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Don't worry about it, we sorted it out. Martin 20:38, 13 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks for letting me know. I was just in the process of updating my sandbox. -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  20:40, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Firefox article
That is indeed a bit odd that I edited Mozilla Firefox when you were talking about it. O.o Anyway, I did check that edit before saving, and I do concede that it was too minor. I should've realized that. My bad; I'll remember that in the future. -- ¿  WhyBeNormal   ?   21:24, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

AWB
First of all, isn't it about time to archive this page? It's upwards of 145kb. Next, I have a question about your bot, SmackBot. What settings was it using when the bot made this edit? You can check out Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser for the context of my question. Thanks! -- M @  th  wiz  20  20  23:04, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
 * These 367 pages should have self links, at least on the first occurence it supports date preferences. Therefore I always (try to) do these pages with manual intervention, or General changes turned off.  I've been through the year twice checking and fixing manually, once last Sept, and once in the last few days, so I don't want to undo all that work! Rich   Farmbrough 23:10 20  March 2006 (UTC).
 * PS you're right about the archiveing!
 * Thanks for the regex, esp the %%title%% bit. I may do a reguar cleanup.  Oh, I should have said at least 368, as well as February 30 there's January 0, and there is a redirect at January 32 also at March 0.  Those are the ones I know about. Rich   Farmbrough 12:49 21  March 2006 (UTC). PS another redirect at December 32 to Hoswatchnight.
 * Yes, the irony is not lost on me! Incidentally there was a simpler way of protecting these pages from "bot" "fixing", but it was subject to user fixing. With this one anyone who changes it will have to have made a conscious effort. Rich   Farmbrough 00:29 26  March 2006 (UTC).

AWB
''I noticed that you recently edited a page on my watchlist, National Middle School Science Bowl, using the AWB. I myself use the AWB but I usually check such automated edits when I see them to make sure they abide by AWB's rules. Unfortunately, this edit seems questionable. The first rule (and the most important) is to "check every edit before you save it." The AWB is a program, not a human, and it can sometimes make unnecessary or incorrect changes. In the above-referenced edit, I can tell you were probably using a regex to redirect links from General Motors to General Motors Corporation. The AWB, as programmed, also changed mdashes from the little code to actual dashes. However, it malfunctioned, as you can see very well towards the bottom. I will bring this error to the attention of other editors, but, please, check every edit before saving. Thank you. -- M @  th  wiz  20  20  22:00, 24 March 2006 (UTC)''
 * PS - The problem never would have been discovered, though, if you had checked your edit. :) -- M @  th  wiz  20  20  22:00, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Problem fixed — sorry for the inconvenience. I try to check my edits carefully but occasionally something gets overlooked. It was my error, not AWB's. Ah, the beauty of the revert function! :-) &rArr; BRossow T/C 22:10, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

RegEx
Have a think about this. I'm trying to fix up piped links to be simpler and more readable, I use the following pair of regexes:

\[\[([^\]\|]+)\|([^\]\|]+)\]\]([a-z\'])([\w\d]*)([\.\,\;\:\"\!\?\s]+) => $2$3$4$5    and    \[\[([^\]\|]+)\|(\1)([^\]\|\-\'\s]*)\]\] => $2$3    Now these work very well  (as far as I know) except in two cases.    Firstly 250 BCE  => 250 BCE which doesn't render correctly because dates are special.    Secondly Article name where Article name will not automatically go to Article Name.    (I.E. links with different capitalisation for the non-first character should be left alone.)    Is there a regex solution to either or both of these problems? Rich   Farmbrough 13:31 28  March 2006 (UTC).


 * Sorry I wasn't clear! These successfully change Frederick to Frederick and Tom's to Tom's in fact they do pretty much exactly what I want except in two pathalogical cases. The BCE bit it fairly obvious, and if I were running just to  fix links, I can use "skip if contains" - I will miss some other cases on the same page (I've got a better fix too).  The other bit is more subtle - planet => planet and Planet => Planet are good edits, because of the way the software treats the first letter of an article name.  But PLanet => PLanet would be bad, as would Planet => Planet becasue the article would then not match the name.  This is more confusing because recent changes mean that pLanet in the search box will get to the right place.  In code it's fairly easy - compare all but the first character of $1 with all but the first character of $2 in a case sensitive way.  I can't see how to do that in a regex or several where the choice is between case sensitive or not.  Perhaps the conclusion is that I should get into the code :-).  Night night. Rich  Farmbrough 00:32 29  March 2006 (UTC).
 * "why not replace it with $1$3 instead of $2$3 ?" That's what I started with - someone thought I was capitalising all the names of chemicals because "rub with naptha." was changing to "rub with Naptha." Thanks for your comments, I thought it might be a bit hard for regexes. Rich  Farmbrough 08:18 29  March 2006 (UTC).

"Pi digit" userbox
Hi, I just had to rename the "Pi" userbox template to "Pi digits" (your 170 digits' memorization). Hence, I stopped by your user-page and amended the user-box list, to set right the change. Thanks. ImpuMozhi 20:21, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Regex request
I've heard you're pretty good with regex. Can you create a regex that removes the links a page. For example, it'll change Foo into Foo. It will also change American (American) into American. This is for disambig cleanup. Also, American should be changed accordingly. Dabs should only have minimal links, per the guideline. I have a few other minor requests that maybe you can do for me, if you have time (such as removing bolded text ( ''' ). Let me know if this requires more explanation. Thanks. Gflor e sTalk 18:02, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * One more thing which may make it more difficult. I was wondering if it could ignore the first link at the beginning of the sentence. For example, Amiga (disambiguation). It will not do anything for the first link... note, it's not the first thing in the line, it's actually a '*', then the link. In this case, it's "*" then "'''" then "" then "term" then "" . (ignore the quotes). However, not all of them are bolded and there isn't always a link at the beginning of the sentence. Dab pages vary a lot unfortunately, but if the regex works for 60% of them, that'd be great. Gflor e sTalk 18:17, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * From what I understand, you want to go to a disambig page and remove all links except the first in each line. For example, on Amiga (disambiguation), you would remove record label, 1994, etc on the last line.  This would pose a few problems.  For example, since the link is not always the first word, the regex would delink all but the first link on each line.  However, on line one of Amiga, you would want to delink the first link.  Therefore, maybe it's better to assume that all "good" links appear first and then you can do the rest manually afterwards.  Secondly, will you be using AWB for these regex fixes?  I'll start working on the regexes now and I'll get back to you with them later after I get more info from you about the specifics.  Thanks. -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  21:41, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I almost forgot - belated congrats on your RfA! -- M @  th  wiz  20  20  21:42, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, assume the first link is good even though that won't always be the case and delink the rest. I can manually correct any errors. I won't be doing it using AWB, although I can if need be. I use an firefox extension for my search and replace (regex). A few more examples, , , . Also, if it's possible, remove all bolded words. The regex doesn't have to be perfect, I can clean up what it doesn't do. Thanks! Gflor e sTalk 21:56, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * See my progress here. I can't seem to get the Apache link on the last line right!  One more thing that might make me have to change the regexes: can you give me a link to the extension you're using?  I want to test out my regexes in that extension since sometimes different regex scripts work differently. -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  22:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm using a bookmarklet here. I can use AWB if it'll make things easier for you. Gflor e sTalk 22:52, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I have to go somewhere soon so I'll continue this tomorrow, but how do you install the bookmarklet? -- M @  th  wiz  20  20  22:57, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Bookmarklet. To install it, add 'searchtextarea' to your bookmarks and then click on it when you want to open it and a window will appear with search and replace, etc. Firefox may block it as a popup though, so be sure to let it open. Gflor e sTalk 01:06, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Hm, odd. When I click the bookmarklet, nothing happens.  (Well, when I click it on this page I get Firefox's popup-blocker warning, but when I bookmark the javascript and click that, nothing happens.) -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  17:02, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I don't know what to say. It works for me. You may have to add wikipedia and that site to your exceptions list in Firefox preferences or disable pop-up blocking altogether (temporarily) for it to work. Does the regex work on AWB? I could just use that, it's no problem. Gflor e sTalk 00:23, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Silly me. It does work, but only when I'm on the edit page.  I kept trying it when I wasn't editing and it wasn't working, but when I clicked on "edit this page" and clicked the bookmark, voila!  I'll try to perfect the regexes as soon as I can - I just have to iron out that one problem. -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  02:13, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I got it! It took me a while to figure out the discrepancies between AWB and your bookmarklet (for example, AWB calls the first subexpression $1 but the bookmarklet starts with $2), but I finally got it!  There is just one more bug I want to fix but don't have to (my regexes make it so that it only corrects the second link in each line so, for example, if there are five links in a line you have to run it four times).  I'll work on that problem and then give you the regexes. -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  16:26, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I could make a regex that would do everything in one run - however, such a regex would delink all links that do not come immediately after the *, even if they are first (so * Hello would be delinked even though it's first). I have a regex that will never delink first links, but you have to run it multiple times.  Each time, it will remove the last link in each line until there is only one link in each line.  I could probably write a javascript bookmarklet that would run it multiple times automatically and will if you ask.  If you want to know, I can also explain why you have to run it multiple times, but I won't explain that now.  Anyways, chatter aside, here are the regexes:

This removes the bold tags: Search: ''' Replace: (nothing) Replace till end selected (the rest of the options don't matter)

This removes the links: Search: (.*?\[\[.*?\]\].*)\[\[([^\]\|]*?\|)?(.*?)\]\] Replace: $2$4 Replace till end must be selected (just regular "replace" doesn't work for some reason) Other options: regex on, wrap off, find in all doesn't matter


 * If it doesn't work, just tell me and I'll fix it in a few million jiffies (with each jiffy being 1/100th of a second, so one million jiffies is 166.6 minutes, almost three hours). -- M @  th  wiz  20  20  17:19, 2 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm testing it out now and it's working great! I don't mind running it several times. Thanks a lot! This will help me out greatly! Gflor e sTalk 19:39, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:Stevenson Staff.jpg
The above image was nominated for deletion. I was about to delete it, but it is not obvious to me that you were ever informed about the nomination. The nomination was due to "questionable status". I will hold off on deleting the image for a while in the hopes that you can respond and clarify if you are the author of the image. Jkelly 01:49, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you for contacting me. Actually, I don't remember where I got the image.  When I first started editing, I was really involved with school articles and I was helping various other Wikipedians write quality articles about their schools.  I did not take the picture myself, but I think I got it off the school's website.  If I did, though, the picture has since been removed from their website.  I hope this clarifies things. -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  16:48, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Extended links
The wiki-rendering software will not perform pipe magic across hyphens and apostrophes. I think that "'s" should be rendered as part of the link, hyphens I'm less sure about. Nontheless I've been castigated for taking "'s" into the link! Regards Rich Farmbrough 21:29 2  April 2006 (UTC).

Bad links
Thank you for the reminder. Unfortunately, there have been some technical difficulties, described on Wikipedia talk:Bad links. -- Beland 04:03, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Rockville and Strathmore
No problem. I've been keeping an eye on the Rockville, Maryland article for months, and despite knowing, on one level, that Strathmore was outside the legal boundaries of the city, it potential problem never occurred to me until I read the article on Strathmore, which gave its location as North Bethesda. One of the side effects, I expect, of being a resident of North Bethesda who has always considered himself a resident of Rockville. – Seancdaug 02:35, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Be careful when you revert
I dont know if it was on purpose or not, but on Episodes of Lost (season 2), you reverted passed my edit which was legitimate. Next time please watch what you revert. ArgentiumOutlaw 06:45, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Time script.
I have a question for you on your time script.

FireFox is using an older version of the script which allows for the date, but the time doesn't change. I'm using the current version which allows for dynamically changing time, but no date.

I'd like to have the date to the left of the time. How to do this? Please help? Please comment on my talk. Thank you. —    nath  a  nrdotcom  ( T •  C  • W) 18:05, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the edit, but it's a bit broken. It shows as: 021:01:020, 6 apr 2006 (utc) — [[Image:Flag_of_Ottawa%2C_Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]]  nath a  nrdotcom  ( T •  C  • W) 21:05, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, please don't worry about it. The error is in MSIE, not Firefox. Thanks for the help! — [[Image:Flag_of_Ottawa%2C_Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Ontario.svg|20px]] [[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px]]  nath a  nrdotcom  ( T •  C  • W) 21:34, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

The RFA you nom'd me for
Right here at Requests for adminship/Matt Yeager 2. I'm really, really appreciative that you remembered, and better yet, that you were checking up on me. Dude, you're officially awesome. Here's hoping for some better luck this time! Thanks again. Matt Yeager ♫ ( Talk? ) 23:18, 8 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Wow, you actually beat me; you supported the RFA before I even notified you on your talkpage. You're really way too good at this whole Wikipedia thing. ;) Matt Yeager ♫ ( Talk? ) 23:19, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

RfA?
I was just looking through your contribs, talk page, etc. in an effort to determine if I should nominate you for adminship. You have had a significant drop in edits - only 79 last month total! Are you still active in Wikipedia? If you are, just show up around Wikipedia a bit more and I'll nominate you in 1-2 weeks. If I don't hear a response from you on my talk page, I'll e-mail you and then assume that you are, unfortunately, not on Wikipedia anymore. But let's not dwell on such possible outcomes - be an optimist! I hope to see you around soon. -- M @  th  wiz  20  20  20:04, 8 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I have effectively been taking an unscheduled Wikibreak, to take care of more pressing matters. Though I still use the Wiki, and still patrol for vandalism, I have indeed not edited much recently. As I'm sure you can appreciate, Wikipedia is a time consuming hobby, and time can be scarce.
 * Thank you for the vote of confidence though. -- Ec5618 07:11, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Did you know? prod can have a parameter.
Hello there. You have proposed the article Harefield, Southampton for deletion without providing a reason why in the prod template. You may be interested to know that you can add your reasoning like that:. This will make your reasoning show up in the article's deletion notice. It will also aid other users in considering your suggestion on the Proposed Deletions log. See also: How to propose deletion of an article. Sandstein 17:09, 10 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Ow, wow! I didn't know that - thanks for letting me know.  However, in that specific case, the article was marked for speedy deletion under the criterion "no content".  I felt that the article did meet the requirements for speedy deletion and, hence, I could have deleted it, but, as I put in the edit summary, I felt there was room for expansion.  (For example, notable events that occurred in Harefield, famous people born there, census figures, etc.)  Therefore, I removed the CSD tag and added PROD.  I have not, though, readded PROD because you removed it, but if you feel that it deserves to be PRODed, feel free to readd it. -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  22:56, 10 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Hi! Thanks for the reply, but it was not I who removed the PROD, but User:Punkmorten. I have no idea about the subject's notability. Plus, PROD is not allowed to be re-added once removed - next stop in this case is WP:AFD. See WP:PROD for more details.


 * Incidentally, could you tell me where you got the idea to add prod without parameter? Nothing against you, of course, but I see several people doing this and I wonder whether we have a information text somewhere on Wikipedia that needs to be amended. Best, Sandstein 04:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Wikibreak
I've also been really busy in RL but I did notice I hadn't seen you around AWB or IRC much and decided to drop by and make sure you are still with us. It's good to see that you are :)
 * Regards, &mdash;-- That Guy, From That Show! <i> (talk) 2006-04-10 21:16 </i>


 * Yeah, Wikipedia does take a lot of my time. But, as shown by when Bluemoose and Adrian "quit" and then came back, it's highly addictive.  (Hmm, the feeling of contributing to the world's largest free encyclopedia releases addictive dopamaine in the brain?  It's possible.)  I haven't had much time for Wiki-things so I haven't been active in AWB or IRC, but I will when I get more time.  Thanks for checking up on me! -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  22:58, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

My RFA
I withdrew it. I'll be sending you a more detailed note in the future, but I think you deserve to be the first to know. Thanks again for nominating me--sorry I didn't hold up my end of the bargain by being a responsible, admin-quality user. Cheers! <b style="color:#DF0001;">Matt Yeager</b> <b style="font-size:medium; color:#B46611;">♫</b> ( Talk? ) 00:22, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, this is Matt Yeager. I wanted to thank you for your vote on my request for adminship. The count was something like was 14/20/5 when I decided to withdraw the request. My decision was based on the fact that there are enough things wasting people's time on the Internet that doomed RFA's shouldn't be kept up for voters to have to think about. Regardless of the rationale behind your vote, I hope you will read this note for an extended note and discussion on what will happen before I make another try at adminship (I didn't want to clog up your userpage with drivel that you might not be interested in reading). Thank you very, very much for your vote and your time and consideration of my credentials--regardless of whether you voted support, nuetral, or oppose. Happy editing! <b style="color:#DF0001;">Matt Yeager</b> <b style="font-size:medium; color:#B46611;">♫</b> ( Talk? ) 01:22, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

SFEDI
Hey, you deleted SFEDI, here's the log: "20:52, 7 April 2006 Mathwiz2020 deleted "SFEDI" (CSD A7)". Why A7 - it's an initiative of some sort - not a person or a group? Or am I wrong? Its creator complained to me. Thanks. - the.crazy.russian τ ç ë  16:14, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Here's the SFEDI website. Definitely not an A7 candidate. I have applied for an undeletion at WP:DRV. Nothing personal of course. Cheers. - the.crazy.russian τ ç ë  16:52, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Re:Montgomery County, Maryland
Thanks, i am trying to convert those that i come across, as for the removal, the attribute is not an option in the template so i didnt really see a need to keep it on the page, if you still want it their it's its fine, i wolnt go back and remove it. --AshyLarry 19:12, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar
Thanks once again. Editcountis can be fatal ;–) Jared Preston 01:45, 16 April 2006 (UTC) PS: Sleep well! Jared Preston.

User:Interiot/Tool2/code.js still doesn't work for me; however, continuing with our chat from User talk:Interiot, what Sunday paper do you read? A national or local one? I guess it depends what state you're from, but our local paper is dire........ – Jared Preston 18:54, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

I read the Metro on weekday mornings, the Evening Standard in the evenings and The Independent on the weekend. I know all about grammatical errors and typos from the days of being a proof-reader for "Motorsport News", a weekly Haymarket-published newspaper, hehe. On a technological note, however, I am still using IE. When I go to User:Interiot/Tool2/code.js and enter my username, it says "Retrieving data..." for about 10 to 15 seconds before going blank, and all I see is the title of the page. Strange, don't you think? – Jared Preston 21:14, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

I am seriously impressed, Mathwiz! *[Enter real name here]*. Do you have a degree in mathematics and/or science? I always used to be great at maths in school, but after college (sixth-form in the UK) I chose arts at university, and as you've probably seen, I now study German and Russian. It's great to know that the Washington Post had to re-publish their article, and with/without your name on it, you know you did it, and you can be proud! I must admit though, had I read that, I would not have noticed that silly schoolboy error. Do you enjoy proof-reading, or do you just notice major omissions like me? :-D Well anyway, you'll be pleased to hear I downloaded Firefox this morning. It was really easy. I'm not going to make it my default browser, but it's always good to have a choice! And now I know my editcount, I won't need to keep asking you! Today is Easter Bank Holiday here and I have to work, but I wish you a great wiki-day! – Jared Preston 08:00, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Re:My edits
Thanx for doing that. It helps me a lot! Icelandic Hurricane #12 18:48, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * But how do I enter my username if the page is protected and I'm not an amin. Am I doing something wrong? Icelandic Hurricane #12 18:50, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Would I put my monobook.js on my userpage, or somewhere on my desktop? Icelandic Hurricane #12 19:09, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you soooo much! Icelandic Hurricane #12 20:43, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Wait, I'm still confused. I feel so stupid right now! I pressed Ctrl then F5, but nothing happened. Am I supposed to write something else that what is already there? Icelandic Hurricane #12 20:48, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * I am using IE, assuming that means Internet Explorer. Icelandic Hurricane #12 20:52, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

VandalProof
Unfortunetly, theres a bug in VandalProof that makes it so that moderators (ironically) can't edit the user list without having VandalProof crashing. This means that currently the only user that has the ability to approve you or any other editor is AmiDaniel, who created VandalProof.

By the way, since its spring break, I'm staying up late and doing most of my sleeping during daytime. :D -- T B  C  ??? ???  ??? 14:26, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm... I think there may be something wrong with my computer, not VandalProof. Anyways, you've been approved by a moderator-- T B  C [[Image:Confused-tpvgames.gif|18px|]] ???   ???   ??? 20:54, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

RE: Mozilla Firefox
I wonder how accurate that French article is (I don't parlé the français ;)) because I've just consulted with my friend in Pori who confirms that her and all her friends use IE. I guess it depends what you want to believe, the truth always lies somewhere in the middle! What have you been up to today? I'm watching University Challenge instead of revising for university exams, but work was fine earlier :) – Jared Preston 20:00, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Google jyrää, Microsoft kusee.... (means "Google rocks, Microsoft sucks" in Finnish) Jared Preston 20:22, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I know a few words to get by :-) What did you need to know, anyway? I can always ask my mate... Jared Preston 20:30, 17 April 2006 (UTC)


 * (Reply to question at my fi talk page) Maybe it's a bit high as absolute value, but as relative value... I don't know. None of my friends uses IE anymore, that's for sure, but Opera and the other browsers are surprisingly popular nowdays. – Nikerabbit 20:34, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I'll keep you posted as and when I find Finnish Firefox users Jared Preston 20:40, 17 April 2006 (UTC) PS: Finnish Phrase of the Day is: Likaisesta mielestä nauttii koko ruumis (The whole body enjoys a dirty mind) – I liked that one! Oh, and wasn't that a speedy response?!?

A thank-you
Hey Mathwiz2020, thank you first of all for your nomination. As you probably know by now, it was successful, and I am now an admin. I would also like to thank you for your efforts during the last week or so - it was a close one, and your efforts were much appreciated. As usual, if you have any questions, drop a note here. Thanks -- Jay  (Reply)  00:18, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Reply
Regarding this edit, I believe that the IP should not be unblocked but should instead be indefinitely banned. It is the IP for a school, and kids at that school can still read Wikipedia just fine for research if they must, and if they want to edit, nothing is preventing them from creating a username and editing with that. If you unblock the IP or let the block expire, some students will make constructive edits; however, vandalism from others will strongly outweigh the positive contribs, and the IP will inevitably be blocked again. I also strongly discourage contacting school or school system IT. Another use already tried to and received no response. In fact, I know why he received no response. I have had first-hand experience with both the school and county IT and they are all (no offense meant to anyone) complete and utter morons. If you want, I can even send you letters written by them that prove how inept they are at everything technological, but I'd prefer not to because they are, shall I say, a bit sensitive. I could always give you quotes or an image with some text blacked out. -- M @  th  wiz  20  20  23:54, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, 550 hasn't been fixed yet so they would be restricted to editing at home. I do agree that schools have a LOT of vandalism, I guess I was just trying to AGF and allow a good faith user upon request.  I hear you with respect to school IT staff, most have no idea what a proxy server is let alone how to monitor WP access.  Oh well, its a fact of life I guess -- Tawker 23:59, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, I didn't know you can't edit with a username from a blocked IP because, well, I never did anything to get my IP blocked :) What's the 550 error?  I assume that's what doesn't allow you to edit from a blocked IP even with a username.  That should stop a lot of vandals who vandalize with an IP and then try to with a username but can't because their IP is blocked.  If only it worked the other way, too - once your username is blocked, your IP can't create more usernames.  That would stop a lot of vandal socks. -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  00:04, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Image:Dilbert icon.PNG listed for deletion
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Hi
Hi, I have managed to make a javascript that removes excess whitespace (largely by stealing code from AWB and other user scripts), now I want to add the linksimplifyer that AWB has, but I don't know how to do the JavaScript equivalent of; foreach (Match m in Regex.Matches(ArticleText, "\\[\\[([^[]*?)\\|([^[]*?)\\]\\]")) { //code }

Do you know if/how this can be done off the top of your head? thanks Martin 18:37, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
 * First of all, shouldn't you make your find-and-replace case insensitive? You could also add another prompt for case sensitivity.  Back to the code, though, try this - it should work:

m = ArticleText.match(/\\[\\[([^[]*?)\\|([^[]*?)\\]\\]/, g); for (var i = 0; i < m.length; i++) { //do some code n = m[i].toString; }
 * Note, though, that javascript is different in this way: each instance is m[i], not. For example, the first line in the for loop should read:

n = m[i].toString;
 * instead of:

n = m.toString;
 * Let me know if this doesn't work. And please tell me when you're script is done, so I can test it out! -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  19:40, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Excellent, I've fiddled around with it a bit, and it works as desired, thanks! As you may have guessed I am totally new to JS so i may take a while to get the actual link simplifyer working properly. I think the problem is that you have linked 'http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Martin/monobook.js/replacetab.js' whereas you should have added Bluemoose rather than Martin (probably my fault for always signing as Martin ;-) Also, is there a program that you use to help generate the JS? or do you just experiment in the monobook? thanks again Martin 20:26, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh, thanks for catching that. What I do is, in Firefox, I click on Tools > Javascript Console and I can play a bit with code there to see what happens.  Other than that, I just test it in monobook. -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  20:29, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Ah yes, the console is useful, also, I have just found that dreamweaver is a fairly decent JScript IDE, although I guess I am too used to the ultra cool visual studio IDE. p.s. feel free to experiment in User:Bluemoose/monobook.js/replacetab.js. Martin 21:01, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Very cool, well done ;-) Now I wonder what other features would be worth copying from AWB? Martin 21:45, 21 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, thanks that's great. Also, I've moved the JScript to WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Formatter. Martin 22:57, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Ok, you're faster than me, I was just about to rename the functions as well. ;-) Martin 22:59, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

hack
on Avillia's talk page click on "show" hacking wikipedia and at the bottom of that it says that. and also this  I  Lov  E Plankton 16:17, 22 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Ah, great minds think alike, I had just sent an email to filefront as well, I agree that he will be on the sharp end of a block if he persues these disriptive actions. Also, his version deosn't seem to work anyway. Martin 16:31, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for the help with the js script on wikia, and on other things, I appreciate it. Sorry for snipping at you earlier. I mean, it's probably a good thing if people discuss the various tools at length, since tools are helpful to people, and it's definitely good for users to help each other. Maybe I'll eventually have to find another place for tools discussions to take place, other than my talk page, since sometimes I prefer to ignore tools for a little while and just focus on wikipedia editing. --Interiot 18:25, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Mathwiz2020's Sockpuppet
I wasn't sure if this was you, they were claiming that your monobook was messed up, and I wasn't 100% sure it was you so I blanked your monobook.js so you would be able to access the page and unblock yourself. If the sock is not you, can you just hit rollback and make a note there, I wasn't sure and I wanted to be somewhat safe. You wouldn't be able to edit your monobook from the sock account anyways, only sysops and the user themselves can do it. Cheers -- Tawker 20:53, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, I see that worked (blanking your monobook), sorry for being a little suspicious, I've seen that kind of thing in the past -- Tawker 20:59, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

No problem, if only there was a better way of debugging the JavaScript ;-) Martin 21:19, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Haha, I saw that. Did you try to go to your monobook.js, and hit Alt-E to put you in edit mode? Or maybe the textbox for the edit would have disappeared too? I dunno, it's an interesting technique, but it'd be nice if the .js could auto-detect its own page somehow. --Interiot 21:20, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Old Skool Esperanzial note
Since this isn't the result of an AC meeting, I have decided to go Old Skool. This note is to remind you that the elections are taking place now and will end at 23:50 UTC on 2006-04-29. Please vote here. Thanks. --Cel es tianpower háblame 20:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Formatter
Yes, it is pretty cool, I have been using it quite a bit, I'll have a look at the final problem that needs ironing out. thanks! Martin 08:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey, I have made a function to help with categorising, User:Bluemoose/monobook.js/catkey.js it swaps around the name to make the category key, e.g. if you were editing Bill Gates, it would paste "Gates, Bill". Anyway, it works, but it just displays the result with <tt>alert(strName);</tt> rather than pasting it into the edit textbox, do you know how to paste or replace the selected text in the edit textbox with this value? It's probably simple for you, I just couldn't work it out. thanks Martin 14:01, 27 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Looks great, changing tested to tested would be great as well. thanks Martin 20:42, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Great, one small problem, it changes Test"ed" to Test"ed" which breaks the link, the only characters it can move outside the link are letters of the alphabet, no symbols. I guess this isnt to difficult to change. thanks Martin 21:48, 29 April 2006 (UTC)


 * It still does for me, I've added the example it changes (but shouldnt). Also, how come you removed the rest of the shortcuts in AWB? As far as I could see they do not conflict with or duplicate anyting. thanks Martin 10:02, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see some of them do conflict, also, I added some other examples that should not be changed by the formatter, I'll have a look at the regex myself later as well. thanks Martin 10:18, 30 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Ok, that's great, I'll add it too AWB at some point as well. Try it on Bill Gates for example, I am now getting errors "m has no properties" on the link fixer and previously on the image fixer (according to the firefox console), I'm not really sure what this error means. thanks Martin 21:06, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Your greeting template
Lupin pointed out to me that you have the awesome auto greet code. I modified it so it uses my templates when I select greet, but I have three questions:


 * 1) How do you, in general, write the javascript that does the auto editing?


 * 1) How do you make it so when it finishes editing, it returns to Special:Log/newusers?


 * 1) How do you know so much javascript, and I don't?

-- Primat e <sup style="color:#6699CC;">#101  21:36, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

regex'n
why thank for you the regex tweak. i am still a bit new with the more complex complexities of the regex, so kudos to you for the aid. :) JoeSmack Talk 22:58, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
 * thanks for the regex tips, i've gotten learn the ropes better. as for the invisible text...well...sometimes theres a ghost that floats around my userspace...i don't understand it either but it has definitely happened to me.....weird huh? JoeSmack Talk 02:04, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Really old regex
Well done! Incidentally you can do it with regexes, but you need over 100 substitutions to do it (if you are constrained to not use the equivalent of "tr" in perl). DO you know the javascript to get a second row of tabs in the edit window? Rich Farmbrough 21:47 29  April 2006 (UTC).


 * (tr is a "translate" function, you can do something like $mylower = tr($mystring,A-Z,a-z) don't quote me on the syntax. RF

Don't worry I worked a way round the BC/BCE problem (although I have forgotten it at the moment). And SmackBot is going to take a lot of work to come back to full life, because of the beauracracy involved. I wanted to finish the U.S. Census artiicles, (about 33,000 to go), but it may be hard to get bot approval. Rich Farmbrough 21:52 29  April 2006 (UTC).

User:William Allen Simpson complained on about six hi profile pages, because of problems with pages he is the self appointed guardian of (something like) List of two letter combinations and List of three letter words. Being very nice I bent over backwards to explain and agreed to re-apply for tasks one at a time. So far I've got round to getting two recurring jobs running, but for anything but the largest one-off it's quicker to do it manually.

I think the BCE solution is to replace BCE with a dummy string before doing the standard replace, then switch it back afterwards. Rich Farmbrough 22:00 29  April 2006 (UTC).

Second line of tabs - That would be ideal, is there code I can steal for that? Rich Farmbrough 22:09 29  April 2006 (UTC).

Census is really just a steal of Bobblewik's units code, since the first pass of the census was taken over by SmackBot, and that's complete. RF.

That's cool. Thanks for trying. Rich Farmbrough 00:24 30  April 2006 (UTC).

Thanks, I'll play with that tomorrow. Rich Farmbrough 00:31 30  April 2006 (UTC).

Fictional Claim?
Why does that seem like a fictional claim? joturn e r 04:33, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


 * And what name failed the Google test (I'm trying to figure out what you Googled; I don't see a suitable phrase). joturn e r 04:34, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


 * D'oh! If there was a "lacks common sense" barnstar, I'd definitely deserve it.  I saw this edit in the my watchlist and meant to revert it because the name Will Trost failed the Google test so the claim that he plays Navy Lacrosse is probably fictional.  So, I didn't want to use rollback because then I couldn't explain my rationale.  So (I use Firefox) I switched to that tab (or so I thought) and went to revert it manually... and, well, I must have done it in the wrong tab.  I'm really sorry!
 * But, going to the Asian vs white and Asian thing, Blair has about 3200 students, about 400 of whom are magnet. Now, I would say that most non-magnet students are Hispanic, black, or white with few Asians.  Greatschool shows that 14% of Blair students are Asian.  This is about 1/8, or 400 students.  If there are few Asians in the non-magnet, then all 400 Asians must be in the magnet program, meaning that almost 100% of magnet students are Asian.  Granted, maybe 10% are white, but 10% is still not "mostly white."  But again, I goofed with the edit summary so I couldn't clarify that earlier.  Thanks for catching me! -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  21:30, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll fix the phrase then. By the way, the magnet at Montgomery Blair is approximately 52% Asian, 44% white, 5% African-American, 1% Hispanic (adjusted a bit from 4-Apr-2004 source: Beyond Black and White; Washington Post Magazine). Certainly that should qualify as "mostly white and Asian". joturn e r 21:49, 2 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Only 52%? Wow... -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  21:58, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

regex question
hey, you wouldn't happen to know how to make this regex not check within wiki commments would you? as i'm now scrapping the bottom of the barrel with Martin's wiki dump searcher, i'm getting misspellings in comments that aren't work fixing, as it doesn't change the article really as a whole. could i do this? JoeSmack Talk 16:39, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
 * this for instance is a result i get back when running that regex:


 * it's quite common; somebody moving around or creating a lot of music album entries put that comment everywhere. notice how unnecessary has two "c"s, which makes it spelled wrong. can the regex be told not to look within commenting like that every time? if so i could eliminate a lot of crud that gets through. JoeSmack Talk 22:24, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

AWB
My edit did NOT only affect whitespace - it also unicodified several other sections of the page, which you can see by scrolling further down the diff. Cynical 07:38, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Re:AWB
It says I have Version 2.5.0.1. --D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 21:08, 13 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I've got it working now. Thanks! :-) --D-Day(Wouldn't you like to be a pepper too?) 19:23, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

RE:Blocks
The shortest block always wins. I'm gonna reblock for a week (sound like a good compromise?) This is an vandalism only IP and is probably some immature 12 year old from the looks of it. Sasquatch t|c 22:40, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Nope, always the shortest block. Cheers and happy admining! Come on IRC if you have time. Sasquatch t|c 22:42, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

A smile for you
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has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing!

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More Smiling
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has smiled at you! Smiles promote WikiLove and hopefully this one has made your day better. Spread the WikiLove by smiling to someone else, whether it be someone you have had disagreements with in the past or a good friend. Smile to others by adding {{subst:smile}}, {{subst:smile2}} or {{subst:smile3}} to their talk pages. Happy editing! — G .<font color="#666666">H e  23:11, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Interwiki order
I noticed you'd asked about this on Grin's page. At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Language_order_poll no only is language code (currently) ahead, but I suspect that many of the votes for "local language" were misplaced, since, although examples were introduced at some point, it could be interpreted as the wiki's local language. Rich Farmbrough 15:04 23  May 2006 (UTC).

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Copyrights
The above two images should be labeled with the tag, as these images are works of employees of the United States Department of Education (Mary Horwitz, a PE teacher, and Sheila Berlinger, part of staff development), that were taken or made during the course of their official duties (mantaining the Robert Frost website). -- ☆ TBC  ☆  23:39, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * They most definitely should not be labeled with that tag. Local school districts are not part of the U.S. federal government. The law that allows works of the federal government to be in the public domain does not apply to state, county, and local governments in any respect. I have reverted your (TBC) changes to those images. --Durin 01:24, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * The official Montgomery County website states that "you may print or download material displayed on the Site for noncommercial, personal use only, provided you also retain all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials. You may not, however, sell, reverse engineer, distribute, modify, transmit, reuse, repost, use, or create derivative works based on the content of the Site in whole or part for any purpose, without written permission from Montgomery County Government or the owner of such content in each instance. " This means you'll have to contact the Robert Frost Middle School staff about using these images, so sorry about my confusion with the copyright tag. -- ☆ TBC  ☆  08:50, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, but the Montgomery County website states that the following terms and conditions apply to all Montgomery County websites, including that of MCPS. Anyhow, good luck over contacting MCPS on the use of the picture. -- ☆ TBC  ☆  21:20, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

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Cold War
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A short Esperanzial update
As you may have gathered, discussions have been raging for about a week on the Esperanza talk page as to the future direction of Esperanza. Some of these are still ongoing and warrant more input (such as the idea to scrap the members list altogether). However, some decisions have been made and the charter has hence been amended. See what happened. Basically, the whole leadership has had a reshuffle, so please review the new, improved charter.

As a result, we are electing 4 people this month. They will replace JoanneB and Pschemp and form a new tranche A, serving until December. Elections will begin on 2006-07-02 and last until 2006-07-09. If you wish to run for a Council position, add your name to the list before 2006-07-02. For more details, see Esperanza/June 2006 elections.

Thanks and kind, Esperanzial regards, &mdash;Cel es tianpower háblame 16:00, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Esperanza Elections
 Mathwiz2020 

Thank you for your vote in the Esperanza Elections. Your support is much appreciated, and it means that I am now in the Council. I will continue to try my best, and if you have any questions or queries, please don't hesistate to leave me a message. Thanks again, —  Fire Fox  15:40, 10 July '06

CSS advice
Hi! I noticed that you're a popups user and a CSS expert, so I'd like to see if you can help with a CSS problem. In firefox, the popup for the link contains a table that is too wide for the popup, and it spills over the side in a rather unsightly manner. I'd like the popup to have a "natural width" that forces the previews to wrap, but also that it is able to expand when absolutely necessary in order to accommodate tables such as this one. Currently, the main popup div has a fixed maxWidth, which is causing this problem; on the other hand, if this is not set then the popup is almost always too wide. Do you have any ideas? Lupin|talk|popups 16:12, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Real life
Well, I'm a senior at Wootton and I divulge in many academic activities. I run math team, computer club, in the science bowl team, was in the Uni. Maryland programing competition team last year just to name a few. I understand your desire to remain anonymous, but you seem like a person I'd like to know in real life. Matrixhax0r 03:41, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Still got the fast welcoming trigger finger?
Ah, that takes me back. Ceptresay (Sceptre) 00:58, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Change to Common.css
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Happy First Edit Day!
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Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Time
Would you be able to tell me how I could customise the look of the time once this script is in place. I'm redesigning my CSS and the dark text is hard to read against my dark blue background. <b style="color:darkblue;">Harryboyles</b> 13:46, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


 * In your monobook.css file, try something like:

color:white; }
 * 1) p-personal li {
 * Substitute whatever other color you want. You can get more complex than that, though.  See the very bottom of my monobook.css file for an example.  Hope this works! -- M  @  th  wiz  20  20  19:04, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

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