User talk:Ilmari Karonen/archives/6

MediaWiki:Blockipsuccesstext
Doesn't work either way, really. See and hover over the block log link. — Jun. 30, '06  [15:48] < [ freak]&#124;[ talk] >


 * Thanks for letting me know. I've reverted myself so it at least works some of the time.  Maybe the whole block log link should be removed until this is fixed. :-(  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:00, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
 * This bug has an extensive history, see User talk:Brion VIBBER, but I am not sure if a bugzilla ticket has been filed yet. — Jul. 1, '06  [18:18] < [ freak]&#124;[ talk] >

Share Webpages
Hi! I recently created an awesome subpage where you can share your favorite websites with other Wikipedians. Just click HERE. Thanks! If you liked that page, remember to check out my other subpages! --S-man 03:44, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

flying squirrel
Hi. Is Image:Assapan-drawing.jpg the correct species you want? I added it to Siberian Flying Squirrel. please check -- Chris 73 | Talk 20:09, 2 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, but no, it isn't. That's the second time someone has suggested that image.  Why is it so hard to tell Glaucomys from Pteromys?  (Rethorical question, never mind.  Probably because the Russian Wikipedia has that image in their generic "Flying Squirrel" article, even though they unsurprisingly mostly discuss the Siberian Flying Squirrel.)  Anyway, thanks for your suggestion.  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:04, 2 July 2006 (UTC)

template:familytree
I came across template:familytree yesterday. It seems like it might be very useful, but I am afraid it is still a bit complex for me. I figured if anyone could explain it to me, you could. It seems like it could be made to turn an Ahnentafel into a (sideways) tree with links, though I think a bit less automatically than I would wish. For example, someone just added a lot of Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia's ancestry in her first paragraph, which would probably better be treated as the sort of family tree that the template produces, later in the article. How would one go from an Ahnentafel (see below) to a tree? Is there any nearlly automatic way to do it? - Nunh-huh 20:29, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Ahnentafel for Olga 1 Olga of Russia. 2 Nicholas II of Russia. 3 Alix von Hessen. 4 Alexander III of Russia. 5 Dagmar of Denmark. 6 Ludwig IV von Hessen und bei Rhine. 7 Alice of Great Britain and Ireland. 8 Alexander II of Russia. 9 Marie von Hessen-Darmstadt. 10 Christian IX of Denmark. 11 Louise von Hessen-Kassel. 12 Karl von Hessen und bei Rhine. 13 Elisabeth of Prussia. 14 Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 15 Victoria of England. 16 Nicholas I of Russia. 17 Charlotte of Prussia. 18 Ludwig II von Hessen und bei Rhine. 19 Wilhelmina of Baden. 20 Wilhelm von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksborg. 21 Louisa von Hessen-Kassel. 22 Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel. 23 Louise Charlotte of Denmark. 24 Ludwig II von Hessen und bei Rhine. (Same as ahnentafel number 18.) 25 Wilhelmina of Baden. (Same as ahnentafel number 19.) 26 Wilhelm of Prussia. 27 Marianne von Hessen-Homburg. 28 Ernest I von Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. 29 Louise of Saxe-Coburg-Altenburg. 30 Edward of Great Britain and Ireland. 31 Viktoria von Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. To make something like: but wiki-clickable.


 * There wasn't, but I made some templates. Enjoy:


 * See also to, and User:Ilmari Karonen/ahnentafel.pl.  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 22:26, 3 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Okay, I officially dub you a Wiki-genius! - Nunh-huh 22:48, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I've been toying with it for a bit now. You even reproduced the colorscheme. Wikigenius is an inadequate description! Thanks for this! - Nunh-huh 23:50, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

wikitable version
I saw a comment somewhere that you had a (mostly) working version of this template utilizing wikitable code instead of raw HTML. Would it be possible to see where this is located, and what its current status is? I cannot seem to get familytree to load on Wikia. -- nae'blis 01:00, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

Fair-use image removed from your user page
Hello, Ilmari Karonen. I've removed Image:PMarsScreenshot.png from User:Ilmari Karonen/Image gallery, as it is a copyrighted image that is being used under a claim of fair use. Unfortunately, by Wikipedia policies, no fair-use images can be used on user pages; please see Removal of fair use images. This image has not been deleted from any articles. If you have any questions, please let me know. —Bkell (talk) 22:54, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the notice. I've now retagged the image as a .  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 23:10, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Leyden
Joel Leyden is a known SEO spammer and states that on his website. He is using Wikipedia, and has admitted as such, to get traffic to his blog. He is not a noted journalist. I state this unequivocally as someone who has worked for 15 years in the Israeli media, and as anyone from the Hebrew wikipedia will tell you. In fact, he is an unknown in Israel. Here is a classic example of someone abusing wikipedia for personal gain. What is worse, his blog (and as an examination will show, it is nothing more) is one of the tools he is using to fight a custody battle with his ex-wife over his children. As a user, now banned, he attempted to use wikipedia to fight this same custody battle, as a perusal of the history of Raanana will show. In addition, he was banned for harrassing another user, both online and in person. The votes to keep included sockpuppets and personal friends, who have fewer than ten edits each, i.e., make 3 edits and vote for Joel. I am not even going to discuss his personal attacks against me or the foundation on his blog. Given the confusion of information and misinformation there, I can only wonder what kind of nonsense he is posting in his article. Nevertheless, I will state this, summarizing a lengthy email which I sent to the Arb Com about two months ago: if the Hebrew Wikipedia, based in Israel, sees fit to include a version of the article about him or his blog, I will support its inclusion in English. If not, I will continue to regard it as simple SEO spam and unverifiable drivel by someone attempting to use wikipedia to attain fame and pursue his own, selfish agenda, using false information, sock puppets, and what have you. I sincerely hope that this is not the direction that Wikipedia is taking. Danny 01:30, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Hipcrime disambiguation
That's a good job, I like that a lot. --Crossmr 19:15, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Greenland userbox
Thanks! and thanks for supporting freedom of speech! Bruxism 17:50, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
Those diagrams in Speciation are far better than I could ever do, as is obvious from the one I tried.... What an honor to have help from the creator of the family tree supertemplate! BenB4 01:55, 19 July 2006 (UTC)



Attempting to follow your example, I downloaded Inkscape, and tried adding text and a few more small features to your great replacement Image:Drosophila speciation.svg. As you can see, it didn't go so well. (It opens fine in Inscape after download, too!) Why don't textual captions work on Inkscape SVGs uploaded to Commons? BenB4 13:45, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

I tried changing the font to Times New Roman but that didn't help. Strangely, it moved the respective black rectangle in a way I do not understand. Nevermind, it was like that in my first try. BenB4 13:50, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Well, I made a PNG version which works just fine.... But then I realized that you must know the trick, because you got text in SVG images to work. So, please tell me how. Thanks again! BenB4 14:40, 20 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Hmm, I don't really know. They "just work" for me.  The only text-related problem I've noticed is that, if the Wikipedia servers don't have the font you've chosen, they'll substitute another one that may or may not look the same.  I've got that less frequently lately, maybe the server admins have installed more fonts.  I've found that sticking to free software fonts (such as freefont) tends to help.  FWIW, the font I used for Speciation modes.svg is URW Nimbus Sans L, a free Helvetica clone that is the basis of FreeSans, and so should look more or less identical.  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 18:26, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

That's really quite clever, I didn't even notice at first, I've tried something similar for my page, I'll probably wind up changing it at some point though--AOL account 17:31, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Talk-page protection
An anon (68.39.174.238) has requested at WP:RFPP that your talk-page be unprotected. Could you please address the matter there? Thanks --Srikeit (Talk 11:05, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

Barnstar!


Note: Following three sections have been merged from User talk:Ilmari Karonen/newusers (which now redirects here).

Regarding my images
Chris9450 07:45, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Would the "fair use" with rationale be more appropriate for these motorcycle pictures?


 * Yes, probably. In particular, the  tag could be appropriate here — but please read what it says carefully before using it.  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:00, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

English at "God Like Level"?
Hello. I realised that you have the template, in which you claim to speak English at a 'God Like Level'. I am not too sure if it is written in jest, or you really think your English is that good.

If it is the latter, I would just like to point out a mistake on your userpage, a case of Redundancy.

It is sufficient to say "I am a full-time software....", and the word "currently" is not necessary.

Just to let you know. Regards - le petit vagabond 05:46, 29 July 2006 (UTC)


 * The "godlike" userbox is meant as a not-too-subtle comment on the inflation of the language skill levels. The Babel boxes started out as a simple system with three levels: 1 (beginner), 2 (intermediate) and 3 (advanced).  Level 3 was originally intended to encompass everyone fluent in the language, including most native speakers as well as fluent non-natives.  Since then, an unnumbered "native" level was added, prompting the creation of a level 4 (near-native), level 5 (professional), and I hear there's been talk of adding a level 6 too.  Over at Wikipedia talk:Babel, someone extrapolated the trend and decided to create this "level infinite" template as a short cut to its logical conclusion.  As I was involved in some related debates at the time, I appreciated the irony and have given the template a place on my user page ever since, even though I sometimes do worry that someone might take it seriously.


 * In any case, it does have the undeniable advantage that I know I'll never need to change it, no matter how many new levels are added to the Babel system. And if it's a little exaggerated, why, surely overrating one's own language skills on a self-evaluated rating system must be utterly unheard of.  Anyway, for what it's worth, on other projects I just rate my English skills at the original level 3 (advanced), which I can at least count on existing at all projects.  And if someone should therefore assume that I am less than fluent in English, for not rating myself at level 4 or 5 or whatever, I don't really mind — and in any case I expect that the overestimates and the underestimates will more or less balance themselves on average.  With a self-rated system, that's all one can really ask for.


 * As for the "currently", it's not meant to be redundant, but I do agree it could be phrased better. I think I'll go with "as of this writing", although "for the time being" could also be appropriate.  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 02:49, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Template:AOL says the opposite of WP:AOL
How come template:AOL says the exact opposite of WP:AOL?--152.163.100.137 02:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * WP:AOL says that AOL still doesn't use XFF headers, this template implies that they do--152.163.100.137 02:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Can someone please correct it?--152.163.100.137 02:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I can't edit it, it looks sprotected, could someone else fix it please?--152.163.100.137 02:31, 3 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks, I'll look into this — I notice this has spilled onto AN/I too. There's something about these AOL proxies that seems to generate a truly inordinate amount of confusion. :-(  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 02:49, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Where can I go and Edit
I have noticed that User-Missingno has used IP 66.196.42.80 his IP is 70. something and someone else has used the same IP. Further evidence: I found the same Ip Listed in the free Open proxy lists on Yahoo and Google. It is a "CGI Proxi". Thank you for your help, Jak.

Image request
Hi, I've seen several genetics images made by you popping up in articles. I was wondering if you could make an image for clonal selection (immunology) based on this. If the link doesn't work for you let me know and I can email a jpg instead. Thanks. --Peta 04:17, 16 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Is this what you wanted? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:05, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, its great, thanks.--Peta 23:02, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Template:Undiscovered Element
"For the moment, the template uses a majuscule, which is an unintended effect. I don't have the proficiency to fix it, please contribute if you can. I am by no way a template expert." (you mean like this?) Template: Undiscovered Element

Yes, thank you, I did not know the  parameter. David Latapie (✒ | @) 23:11, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Thank you!
Thanks a lot for creating the templates DOClink and RTFlink! They will be really useful. Pruneautalk 16:28, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Patch for pipe trick with commas
You wrote a patch to make the pipe trick work with commas. Are you planning to implement it, or is more comment needed? --NE2 16:16, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't quite remember why I didn't just apply it back then; I think I was probably because there were a few corner cases involving both commas and parentheses in the same title that I wanted to tweak, combined with a general lack of round tuits (you may have noticed I haven't been spending much time on Wikipedia lately). I'll take another look at it if I'll find the time during next week or so.  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 12:17, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't mean to push you - presumably you're doing good work, as the site's holding up - but have you gotten said round tuits yet? --NE2 00:08, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
 * It's in as of r16804, and should start working as soon as the the servers are synced from SVN. Happy editing!  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:38, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
 * THANK YOU! --NE2 19:54, 7 October 2006 (UTC)