User talk:TheDJ/Archive 9

Hello!
I have noticed your contribution to MediaWiki:Common.js and would like your help. As you see, on english wikipedia the edit button on different sections of an article is on the right side of the page. I work on dv.wikipedia and it is written from right to left (unlike en.wiki which is written left to right) In our wiki, the edit button of section is on the right side, next to the heading. Is there anyway it can be moved to the left?? Thank you very much Awaiting your response. cheers. --Glacious (talk) 20:44, 24 October 2010 (UTC)


 * This is 24901, which was since fixed in the software, but the fix is not yet deployed for the wiki's yet. You can fix it locally by adding:  to dv:MediaWiki:Vector.css. Once the software is updated ( somewhere between now and new years eve ) this can be removed again from your local wiki. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 11:35, 25 October 2010 (UTC)

Qui
Hi TheDJ, do you think you it would be possible make Qui compatible with the UserStatus template, if so that'd be awesome. Keep up the good work! Cheers, — Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм  •  Champagne?  • 5:03pm •  06:03, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * You want qui to support the additional 5 user statuses that that specific template supports ? I never really felt like it, it would make the user menu too large. If you have a way to support it unobtrusively however, then patches are welcome. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 10:43, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the belated response, my watchlist is extremely long. Well Online, Away, Busy, Offline, Sleep and School/Work are the ones that'd be most useful. Also if a user has the UTC Live Clock in Preferences installed then Qui displays on the next line below the top-right nav ribbon, is there a way to fix that? Also, love HotCat, the new multi-category update is a real godsend, I'd been waiting ages for that option :) Regards, — Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм  •  Champagne?  • 9:23pm •  10:23, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

File:Untitled-1.gif listed at Redirects for discussion
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New version of Hotcat
The new features of Hotcat are excellent: whom do I thank for this? :-) Are you still its maintainer? Top Jim (talk) 21:04, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * User:Lupo on Wikimedia Commons :D —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 21:37, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Much obliged. Top Jim (talk) 23:55, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Sidebar help
Hi. Re: WP:VPR, I believe you might be mistaken regarding "... by default, the Interaction tab is collapsed ...". I tried a few variations of browsers, all logged-out, and consistently had the "Interaction" and "Languages" sections appear open by default. (I dimly recall some arguments discussions about this...). Possibly you are seeing sections collapsed (even if logged out) due to a cookie, or something? You might wish to amend your comment at VPR. :) -- Quiddity (talk) 22:26, 31 October 2010 (UTC)

Signpost
Hey, great job! (In fact, far too good a job. In hindsight I should have found someone to make a hash of it and thus keep my own post secure. Ah well.) Apologies if I've written out any intentional deviations from previous style, but it's probably best to discuss them and agree first, rather than have some sort of ping-pong between editors. But anyway, I'm back now but feel free to contribute again in future :) - Jarry1250 [Who? Discuss.] 22:09, 1 November 2010 (UTC)

hotcat
Hoi TheDJ, ik denk dat jij hier Michaelovic wel even de goede richting uit kan helpen. Kan jij even kijken? Akoopal (talk) 12:39, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Rough translation: "Hi TheDJ, I think that you can help Michaelovic, even rough directions are good and can help. Can you take a look at it?" Regards, — Ғяіᴆaз'§Đøøм  •  Champagne?  • 9:33pm •  10:33, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Beste TheDJ, ik wil je bedanken voor je hulp. Zonder jouw hulp zou ik nog steeds hoofdpijn krijgen van die Hotcat. Ik waardeer het zeer. Uiteraard ook een dankje aan Akoopal die jou er attent op heeft willen maken. Btw, leuk om te weten dat je een developer bent van de VLC player. Met vriendelijke groeten, Michaelovic (talk) 12:54, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * (Translation) Dear TheDJ, I want to thank you for your help. Without your help, I still would be having a headache from that Hotcat. I appreciate it. Also a thank you to Akoopal, for appointing you on the problem. BTW, nice to see that you are one of the developers of VLC player. Greetings, Michaelovic (talk) 12:54, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Common.js/secure.js
Given the comments here (saying that Ganglia also should be added to the bypass list), and the fact that there are about 10 WMF projects, wouldn't it be more effective if there was only a "whitelist" for adding the WMF projects (which all have a secure version), such as Wikipedia, Wikiversity, Wikinews, Wiktionary, etc? Or would there be some drawbacks in doing this? Hey Mid  (contributions) 14:24, 5 November 2010 (UTC)
 * If you draw up the list, then sure. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 00:51, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
 * I think:
 * commons
 * incubator
 * http://mediawiki.org
 * meta
 * wikibooks
 * http://wikimediafoundation.org
 * wikinews
 * wikipedia
 * wikiquote
 * wikisource
 * wikispecies
 * wikiversity
 * wiktionary


 * I think that the ones that start with "wik" can have its own paranthesis, so that we don't have to repeat the "wik" part for those projects that start with that part.


 * Regarding mediawiki.org and wikimediafoundation.org, it should also work using " http://www. " in the beginning. If there are non-WMF projects or other missing WMF projects that have a secure version, they can easily be added by an administrator, but this is definitely the most efficient way, instead of just adding projects to the bypass list.


 * / Hey Mid  (contributions) 09:28, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Hi again. TheDJ, are you there? Are you working on it? Hey  Mid  (contributions) 15:50, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Geonotice
Thanks for fixing. Seddon talk|WikimediaUK 03:24, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * No problem, but I think we need an event generator or something, because this happens too often. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 03:28, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

re:geoiplookup
Hello. It's definitely improved. It's not a distraction any more. Thanks :)--Brianann MacAmhlaidh (talk) 09:37, 16 November 2010 (UTC)

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Geonotice
Hi, there's still no sign of my geonotice, which I inserted last week, appearing. Do you know who I should contact about this, or can you do anything? Thanks, Hohenloh + 06:15, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

iPhone CSS fix
When you have a minute, could you implement MediaWiki talk:Common.css/Archive 12, please? Looks like there are no objections. --MZMcBride (talk) 05:57, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Ok, been looking into this. jQuery does not run by default and the iphone and ipod classes can thus not be used. We need to target mobile devices, because this option works on ALL webkit, so will also disable text zooming on Safari Desktop. Solution is to use a media query like this:

—Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 22:33, 8 December 2010 (UTC)

"Report an error"
The thread at MediaWiki talk:Common.js/Archive 18 ground to a halt. Any way to get this implemented? Fences &amp;  Windows  22:01, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Can you please raise the issue on Common.js again. I'm awfully busy lately with life outside of Wikipedia. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 10:07, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

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Text-sizer
Hello TheDJ, You were referred to me as an excellent web developer for help with building a template. When you have time, can you help me out with this? - Theornamentalist (talk) 22:52, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
 * I don't have the time atm. Sorry ( —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 10:18, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Hi
I'm trying to install Lupin/Anti-vandal tool, but im stuck. Could you help please? Someone65 (talk) 10:27, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Tablesorter.com adaptation
(Re: this discussion from MediaWiki talk:Common.js) OK, so the planned migration is firm. I had taken the earlier answer as an definite-maybe.

I looked at the jquery.tablesorter.js script and it appears to do a good job of handling rowspan and colspan in the header, but not the body. As far as adapting it to MediaWiki, I assume we would need some function to map the existing "sortable" class to "tablesorter", or modify the .js to recognize the "sortable" class. We would also need to move the header rows into a thead block. That would give us the basic functionality, but I would assume you or someone is already working on that. Rows tagged as "sortbottom" and "unsortable" (fixed-in-place) likely present some complications that might require some changes to the core sort algorithm. Perhaps some kind of before-sort and after-sort callbacks might allow custom code to set aside and later restore the fixed data rows. I am sure there are many other issues regarding the features and quirks of the current implementation that would best be preserved to maintain backward compatibility.

Can I be of assistance? Is there a list of tasks looking for a developer? -- Tom N (tcncv) talk/contrib 02:55, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
 * DieBuche just added his first attempt to 8028. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 13:35, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

photo rename
Greetings,

I noticed that you had renamed one of my photo files (Gandy Bridge), Thanks. ~ WSlupecki (aka HARTride 2012 Tampa)

Kvetch
Hi. I started a page at Kvetch and collected some discussions on its talk page that you may be interested in. There's quite a bit of work to be done before this can go live, but I think it's an important and much-needed feature. Cheers. --MZMcBride (talk) 22:11, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

Popups
Was thinking about copying MW Popups and making my own variant, but before I create that kind of a code fork I thought I'd run an idea by you and see if you think this would make sense to change for everyone who uses the interface. The idea, put simply, is that when mousing over any talk page (user talk, article talk, WP talk, etc...) instead of seeing a preview (which I feel like is usually an out of date top line of the talk page, or some other non-relevant content) the default action would be to see the history of the page. This wouldn't change the beauty of reading popups mid-article (where you can see the lead of the other article you are hovering over) but it would benefit people who review their watchlist for vandalism... or perhaps, any time you are reviewing your watchlist the default action should be to show history. Think this would be useful for others, or should I keep my big ideas to myself? 7 06:49, 9 February 2011 (UTC)


 * Feasible?  7  02:20, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Everything is feasible if you spend the time on it. I don't have time to work on popups myself, but everyone can, changes can be proposed on it's talk page and "editprotected" requests can be made to any script. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 11:39, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

lastfm.js
Hello DJ, I added to my User:Yug/monobook.js the code importScript('User:TheDJ/lastfm.js') I get the error message "sorry, not enough content to play this station". Can you explain a bit what your code do, and does this need an account on Lastfm or something else ? Yug (talk)  16:52, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * The bug reappeared when I was editing Egyptian Revolution of 2011. Very ! Freaky ! It's seems to be relate to Chrome, lastfm.js, and the edition of Mediawiki... It's when editing a page, but not systematic. Just some times. However, the risk is hight, about 1 out of 4~5 edits, and the bugging page forbidden access to the save/revert button, which make the clean up difficult. So I encourage you to state in User:TheDJ/lastfm.js that this js code is 'dangerous' for Chrome users.
 * Secondly, all my apologizes for the bug on your talkpage. Yug (talk)  06:06, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * What about using jQuery?


 * PS: I also get the same error "sorry, not enough content to play this station". Helder 13:35, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * You need an account I think. I already made some changes to the html this week. It's probably better now than it was before. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 15:01, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

es wiki redirect in popups
Thank you DJ for your quick response. There is a little misspell: it must localize to es not eo. Best regards, Gustronico (talk) 21:06, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Done, thx for double checking. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 21:10, 12 February 2011 (UTC)

Skittlepedia
Hi. I noticed the above edit of yours and I've used that term at Template talk:Episode list. There's also Template talk:Infobox television/colour, which is dangling. Cheers, Jack Merridew 00:58, 17 February 2011 (UTC)

Namespace names
I didn't look at the code, but I was wondering if isn't possible to use wgFormattedNamespaces to avoid saving all those namespace names? Helder 13:19, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * It is, but no one has invested the time to rewrite that part. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 13:24, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Ah, ok. Helder 13:27, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Take a breath
Seriously man, breathe. Some of your comments about the upgrade on VPT are making you seem like a total dick (which I absolutely don't think you are). I completely understand your frustration; personally, I think sometimes people are far too quick to complain (especially when the site is provided for free, but some people will just bitch no matter what), and the Internet's tendency for comments to become excessively grand ("oh man, this mundane change is the WORST EVAR!!!11!!!one!!") certainly doesn't help, but take a deep breath and don't let it get to you.

If you're getting worked up over someone's flippant (and to be honest, pretty ignorant) comment about stuff, take a step away and do something non-Wikipedia-related. EVula // talk // &#9775;  // 21:49, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you, you are right. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 23:17, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Thanks & I apologize for everybody
I also wanted to apologize for all the insensitive people that keep complaining. They do this out of ignorance, not knowing all the bugfixes and updates that are in the new release. They see some petty issue and raise a big stink about it. I wish people were a bit more aware of the big picture, unfortunately they are not. So I wanted to say sorry for all the crap you've had to deal with.

I wish I could express how much I value all your countless hours of help. I'll put it like this; If I could pay you $100,000/year, I would. And I'd still be getting a bargain. So thank you. I, and many others, all appreciate everything you do. Thanks. -  Hydroxonium  ( H3O+ ) 06:12, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

Bug 27508
Could you please take a look at this bug? I have a feeling that this might be related to the other SVG problems that were pointed out at the Commons. (However, it's entirely possible that it is something else entirely.) Lupo 21:18, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That bug requires the powers of a sysadmin, I'm just a developer. I already tried pointing it out multiple times, but people are rather busy. I'm not so sure it's related to the SVG issues though. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 12:32, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * That's a 12(!) MB SVG file... 99% of which is made up of a really large, BASE64 encoded PNG file. I suspect that's the reason Mediawiki chokes on it. It displays fine, but trying to view the source even hangs Chrome for 10 minutes.  — Edokter  ( talk ) — 20:17, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I tried to delete it using the API, but that runs into the same problem. Annoying. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 20:59, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
 * What is really strange is that even including only a link to that image (in the form, so no display of this SVG), hangs MediaWiki. It would be understandable if MediaWiki had problems displaying this file; but that it chokes already on just referencing its description page is really bizarre. Furthermore, there is a second file;  , which has the same size and structure (it's also a 12MB SVG with a huge embedded PNG), that does not exhibit this problem: including a link to the "...-en.svg" file does not hang MediaWiki. Lupo 09:10, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
 * When I get home, i'll try uploading the file to my local dev installation, and then I can check the debug to see what is going on. Probably the new parser is totally puking on it, causing the metadata to never get set. (which probably indicates that the failure of such isn't being properly cached). —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 10:02, 21 February 2011 (UTC)

Please help (VPT)
Hi. I posted at VPT recently and you told me to identify the problematic scripts. I've discovered that User:Omegatron/monobook.js/floatingSidebar.js is causing the vertical strip on the left of my page to be shifted down. Can you modify that script to be compatible with the recent MediaWiki update? Thanks for your underappreciated hard work at VPT. Goodvac (talk) 02:09, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Hey, thanks for the fixes. I mistakenly thought that you didn't attempt to fix it. Sorry about that. Goodvac (talk) 22:45, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

New Courier font in edit mode
Hi DJ, as you've been addressing some of the issues on the PUMP, would you mind taking a look (if and when you have time) at the thread about the Courier font having appeared in edit mode? It's not so easy to edit with, and it's causing some distortions with symbols. Any advice about how to get our old fonts back in edit mode would be much appreciated. I've checked it with various browsers, and it's the same, and no settings have been changed. See Village_pump_(technical). By the way, in case it helps you to pin down what happened, it started for me at around 18:00 hours (UTC) on February 20. Many thanks, SlimVirgin  TALK |  CONTRIBS 17:45, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, I have no clues on this one. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 14:26, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Request to remove protection
Please see my suggestion at Help talk:Books/Rendering_page_info_text. Thanks, He!ko (talk) 15:41, 25 February 2011 (UTC)

Replacment of non-free logo File:Liga BBVA.png qualified as fair use under United States copyright law
Hello. First, sorry for my bad english. I want to ask you, to replace the current non-free logo File:Liga BBVA.png by a new one. I'm not allowed to do so. The source of the new logo is: http://img82.imageshack.us/img82/2061/logov.png It is the currently used logo by Liga BBVA. See for this http://www.ligabbva.com/co00/ Thank you very much. Yours, SanSebasti — Preceding unsigned comment added by SanSebasti (talk • contribs) 21:45, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Propose Some Images for Deletion
Hey there,

I would like some images of mine removed from Wikipedia/Wikimedia; I don't want to be associated with them, and they sometimes come up when my name is Googled. They also serve no real purpose, and are not being used on any Wikis and do not contribute anything useful. I was wondering if you or any other admin could delete them. The images in question are:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DirtyDick's.jpg

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CowDefecating.jpg

Thanks, --MosheA (talk) 22:57, 14 March 2011 (UTC)


 * MosheA posted the same message on my talk page. I've replied on his.  —David Levy 02:07, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

User:TheDJ/Print dialog
At User:TheDJ/Print dialog, you are referencing Sharebox and User:TheDJ/sharebox.js. Shouldn't this be User:TheDJ/printdialog.js? ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 17:38, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the notification. Copy past booboo :D —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 10:35, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Figured. Copy and paste can be fun! ---— Gadget850 (Ed)  talk 13:07, 18 March 2011 (UTC)

navpop
Heh, I was reverting a few seconds after you did, seeing that Gadgets_body.php was synched, but since it didn't work I restored the workaround. I assume you are looking into it? Cheers, Amalthea  18:36, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The RL mode of gadgets still seems broken in some strange ways. Roan is looking at it. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 00:14, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Common.css/WinFixes.css
Hi TheDJ

Since you're the one who created MediaWiki:Common.css/WinFixes.css, perhaps you can help: There are still lots of templates out there that continue using explicit font definitions, just like IPA, polytonic and Unicode used to do before you created WinFixes.css. It would be great if all explicit font definitions were concentrated in WinFixes.css so the explicit font definitions would no longer affect users with a capable browser.

Some of the templates that continue using explicit font definitions include: script/Hebrew (which already assigns an unused ), lang-he-n, lang-he, script/Gaelic, script/Cuneiform, script/Runic, script/Coptic, script/Phoenician, script/Slavonic, okina.

If you don't have the time for fixing these templates and WinFixes.css, perhaps you know of another administrator whom I could address about this? Thanks anyway! -- machᵗᵃˡᵏ👍 08:08, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't have the time, nor do I know who else can do this. In general however, I would point out that centralized CSS is preserved to the most commonly used elements, since they are distributed to ALL users, as opposed to templated css which is only distributed to the people who read the pages on which the templates are used. Centralizing is not always a good thing, and this is probably a prime example. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 20:16, 4 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Thanks anyway! Of course, WinFixes.css is not distributed to all users, whereas it is really all users that are affected by font definitions in templates. I don't know for sure, but I doubt that polytonic is more commonly used than, say, the Hebrew script with its various templates or okina. -- machᵗᵃˡᵏ👍 06:37, 5 April 2011 (UTC)

Infobox journalist
You recently contributed to the Template:Infobox journalist. Your input is requested for the following discussion: Template talk:Infobox journalist. Thank You. --Flyguy33 (talk) 06:54, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

The help desk needs a scripting expert
The Help desk team are trying to put together an edit notice for the main Help Desk page. Ordinary editors, with or without JavaScript enabled, must be shown the existing edit notice, but the help desk volunteers would like to see something like this version instead, with a collapsed table of the common response templates.

May we enlist your expertise in this? The discussion thread is here, and the VPT thread it mentions has been archived here. You are welcome to play in my sandbox.

Thank you! -- John of Reading (talk) 06:06, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I don't have the time. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 07:39, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
 * No problem. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:40, 11 April 2011 (UTC)

Qui
Currently IE9 is breaking Qui. Its showing it at the bottom of the page. Please fix it! --Tyw7 (☎ Contact me! • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 19:34, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I do not have access to IE9, and I'm too busy with work to go seek it elsewhere. Anyone can investigate the issue though and suggest (if not an admin) or make the fix themselves. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 12:02, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Now I'm getting Qui encountered an unknown status. Please blank your Status page. I've blanked my status page :/ --Tyw7  (☎ Contact me! • Contributions)   Changing the world one edit at a time! 20:47, 20 April 2011 (UTC)

Award

 * About time :) –SJ +

Ombox fix on Meta?
The ombox template family on Meta isn't rendering properly. Can you tell why? Are the ombox css styles applied only to en:wp / must be added to each new site? Thanks, –SJ + 19:44, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
 * Correct, the mbox family is a set of English Wikipedia templates and styling. So you need to copy both the template, as well as the mbox styles from MediaWiki:Common.css. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 07:56, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Upgrade needed on nlwiki for GoogleTrans gadget
Hi TheDJ,

I've had to upgrade GoogleTrans to support IE9 (adding 'px' to pixel length and widths!). I haven't been able to do this on the nlwiki since BarkingFish, who owns the gadget file, doesn't seem to sign on anymore.

Could you please upgrade the code for GoogleTrans on the nlwiki? The gadget file is

nl:User:BarkingFish/googleTrans.js

The code to replace it with is at:

nl:User:Endo999/GoogleTrans.js

Thanks Very Much.

Endo999 (talk) 17:01, 30 April 2011 (UTC)

PS. I've just put a translate next sentence? command in the enwiki GoogleTrans gadget. When you select > 1 word this command appears in the popup and will


 * 1) select next sentence
 * 2) translate this sentence in the popup.


 * I'm not an administrator on the Dutch Wikipedia, so I cannot help there, but i'll try to ping a user there. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 15:02, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:English
Template:English has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Colonies Chris (talk) 13:44, 28 May 2011 (UTC)

Communication idea
Hi, I made a suggestion in a VPT discussion you were involved in; I wondered if you had any thoughts on that: "what if some developer(s) contributed just a little to the Signpost on a (semi)regular basis describing some of the trials and tribulations of what they're currently developing? One of the big problems in this area is lack of communication. If the community better understood what is involved and how hard it is, that would help, I think. Plus the Signpost has a feedback section - I'm sure you'd get encouragement/praise as well." I did previously try something in that direction with WP:DEVMEMO, but that didn't work out. Perhaps something smaller and more informal, fitting into an existing process, might work? If you think the idea has legs, do you have any thoughts on how to organise it? Rd232 talk 22:47, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * It is a good idea. I actually regularly wrote the tech section of the signpost in the past myself. Unfortunately I now have a new job, and my Wikipedia time is very limited and I spend a maximum of 6 hours a week on development for MediaWiki. I guess a small series of interviews might be a nice idea. Like once a month with different developers. Please suggest to User:HaeB. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 22:53, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
 * That could work. I've left a note. Thanks. Rd232 talk 23:08, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

ISS

 * (Origins: all participating partners didn't really have proposed space stations, just modules really, and reading the referenced consolidated launch manifest didn't really change my mind on that one.) (undo)


 * (i disagree. They were proposed space stations. Granted, not well developed plans, but still proposed. Might need a ref though.) (undo)

Hello Derk-Jan, How are you ? I expect you are busy in real life, cool. I was thinking at some point in the future, of updating the paragraph in the Origin section of the ISS page, and I was after your help in that matter, you see, I've done a lot of research in the past and I haven't ever heard of a canadian space station, or the Japanese Kibo laboratory being part of a space station program, and the European columbus I'm honestly not too sure about, I've never heard of it being a space station program, but I haven't studied it's origin very much that I can recall, just their current and future plans.

The current paragraph reads like this

According to the plan, the International Space Station programme would combine the proposed space stations of all participant agencies: NASA's Freedom, the RSA's Mir-2 (with DOS-8 later becoming Zvezda), ESA's Columbus, and the Japanese Kibō laboratory.[citation needed] When the first module, Zarya, was launched in 1998, the station was expected to be completed by 2003. Delays have led to a revised estimated completion date of 2011.

Do you know where I might find info on space station programs for those 3 partners ? the other 2, Russia and America, I've quite familiar with. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Penyulap (talk • contribs) 22:03, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
 * The canadians never intended to make their own station, but the Europeans and Japanese sure did. Perhaps not really reliable sources; but: http://www.astronautix.com/craft/colation.htm http://www.russianspaceweb.com/columbus.html but the images there show you that there definetly were concepts. The same for the Japanese space station, but since it is already almost impossible to find references for the current kibo module, those may be harder to find (Japanese don't publish so much and what they publish is often in japanese, not in english). Good luck with your search. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 18:14, 6 June 2011 (UTC)


 * WOW !!! I'm freaking out here, this is amazing ! Those references for the Columbus space station are incredible, and the best lead I have ever seen. They are two of my favorite sites too, so I feel like a complete idiot really. You were right and I was wrong. I have been flat out on the article page lately getting a big push for new material from 15 wikiprojects and I had overlooked your usertalkpage, and now that I'm taking a break I'm just catching up.


 * Another editor who has been carefully watching some of my messages has updated the lead already, it's still not up to your standards, but it'll do fine for now, I'll immediately research further about the Japanese module's history, so it will be ready to fix up and reference when I'm back. Japanese is a snap for me, all foreign languages are, it's very easy to use google language tools to translate those pages for you. So as we agree it needs references I'll fix the lead first thing when I return. The Japanese embassy on Wikipedia and Nihonjoe have been of great help as well. Penyulap   talk 09:47, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

Kvetch
Weren't you involved with Kvetch (aka "wikibugs") at some point? Is it dead? Rd232 talk 15:29, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes i was, but I don't have enough time to work on things like that anymore. I'm trying to dump as many projects as possible and limit myself to Village pump technical and coding some smaller things for MediaWiki. It seems that it is missing a Javascript/jQuery developer to actually do the work, but I'm sure ppl are still interested in it. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 18:06, 6 June 2011 (UTC)

Query developer? Is it the new name for someone who has SQL-4 or SQL-N in a virtual Babelbox or is 2 or 3 enough? Cheers ;-) S.I. Oliantigna (talk) 22:36, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
 * jQuery. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 08:32, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Your Twinkle loader
Hi, I don't know how many people are using your Twinkle loader, but the problems it sought to address should be moot with Twinkle v2. Would you mind if I changed it to load the gadget instead? Cheers, Amalthea  07:40, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Sure, no problem. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 18:14, 10 June 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of File:広報人 矢部謙三 トリック劇場版２公開記念講演会.jpg


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Signpost
Could you cover the Tech Report this week and/or next week? Thanks. - Jarry1250 [Weasel? Discuss.] 19:49, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

Sharebox
Hey, I like your sharebox a lot. What do you think about trying to make it a WP:GADGET? Ocaasit 22:44, 18 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Go right ahead, but I don't have much time to work on scripts anymore these days. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 21:31, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Sharedupload
Hi,

You are the last one who edited MediaWiki:Sharedupload. When i see it at Special:AllMessages, it is identical to the source - "This file is from $1 and may be used by other projects.". But when go to the actual page, i see #REDIRECT MediaWiki:Sharedupload-desc-here. Can you explain this?

Thank you. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 20:04, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
 * MediaWiki:Sharedupload is not actually used by the MediaWiki software anymore. Instead MediaWiki:Sharedupload-desc-here and MediaWiki:Sharedupload-desc-there are used instead. I made it a redirect because there were many inbound links towards it from older discussions. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 21:33, 19 June 2011 (UTC)

Template:Km2 to mi2
What am I missing? I see several instances of use in articles, such as Epalinges. I suspect it would be easy to replace the template, but doesn't that have to be done before deleting?-- SPhilbrick  T  18:29, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
 * this. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 18:43, 20 June 2011 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Searchmenu-new-nocreate
Hey there, I've replied at VPT, and posted a proposal for the new message at MediaWiki talk:Searchmenu-new-nocreate (I've also announced it at Wikipedia:MediaWiki messages).

Thanks for your help, and needless to say I'd very much welcome any further input you could provide. --213.196.214.196 (talk) 07:38, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Searchmenu-new-nocreate
Wrt to this VPT thread, I'd welcome your input at MediaWiki talk:Searchmenu-new-nocreate. --213.168.116.251 (talk) 11:19, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

International Space Station
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Hidden navbar on Template:Asbox
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Opera mini and mobile wikipedia redux
This might be of interest to you and those developing the mobile site, an opera mini simulator that emulates Opera mini 6.1 (and there's a link to an older version as well) I would have posted this to VPT but the thread has been archived. --Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:39, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

New Orleans MediaWiki developers' meetup in October
TheDJ, sent you a few notes & IRC pings about the New Orleans developers' meetup in October and haven't heard back; did you receive them? Thanks. Sumanah (talk) 20:39, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

@embed
Regarding this edit, does the  keyword not also work on the shorthand   property?  — Edokter  ( talk ) — 13:07, 1 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Another question: I notice that when loading a gadget through resource loader, the images are not embedded. Rather, the entire accompanying CSS in included inline unaltered. Is this something still in the works?  — Edokter  ( talk ) — 19:49, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * 1.17 vs. 1.18 :D —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 23:26, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
 * We're on 1.18... and I see no difference... :/  — Edokter  ( talk ) — 10:07, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * What is the advantage of using [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=cur&oldid=453335395 this]? Helder 16:27, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * You mean the seperate properties vs. the shorthand ? No idea. As far as I know, the @embed keyword should work on both.  —  Edokter  ( talk ) — 16:30, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Hmm... This  keyword is new to me. I just found more info about it on RL/V1SPEC. Helder 21:03, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

Today's code changes
Hello! It appears that one of today's code changes (most likely at Template:Sec link auto) somehow caused external link icons to appear at Template:Wikipedia languages. I inserted the "plainlinks" class as a quick fix, but I assume that other pages are similarly affected. Thanks! —David Levy 19:17, 1 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, an unintended consequence indeed. I'll see if I can fix it, but with the new secure setup, we can't detect in templates anymore if someone is on the secure server and this template has behavior that relies (for styling only) on being able to know that. Might not be fixable... —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 19:33, 1 October 2011 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Thank you for fixing up the JavaScripts linked on WP:VPT to have protocol-relative URLs and thus helping other Wikipedia users be able to switch to HTTPS and keep themselves safe!

—Tom Morris (talk) 21:47, 5 October 2011 (UTC) 

Copy & paste fail
Hi!

I noticed you have added some extra code to User:MarkS/extraeditbuttons.js on this edit:  Could you remove that? Helder 18:48, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Done. --MZMcBride (talk) 19:24, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Wow, that's amazing. The exact reason why we should't be using document.write and it triggers exactly at the moment that i remove it and inside the text area. That's like super super coincidence. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 20:21, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Blue Duster
Thanks for fixing table at Blue Duster. I can use that as an example to fix the tables in "my" other articles. It's much easier when someone shows you how to do it rather than just telling you.Tigerboy1966 (talk) 11:28, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-10-10/Opinion essay
Re the revdel here; OS is to be used for that kind of thing. Have you contacted the functionaries? Ironholds (talk) 18:36, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Script now broken with change from jQuery
I was wondering if you could look into User:The Earwig/afc-helper.js, which in this revision you changed from jQuery to importScript and broke the tool for some of us? The error my console gives is  at line 32. I use Firefox 7.0.1 right now. For Chrome 14.0.835.202, I get the error:

I'm going to revert it for now, because I don't know how to fix this, but your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -- DQ  (t)   (e)  20:14, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
 * That will probably have broken the script again for a few other people. But whatever. Can someone tell me what this thing does, where and how it is supposed to look like ? That will be helpful, otherwise it's a bit coding against a black box. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 22:05, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the delay, File:Screenshot_AFC_Script_2.PNG should give you an idea of what it should look like. -- DQ  (t)   (e)  01:09, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

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Proposal
Hi, you have participated on Village_pump_(technical), now there is discussion on VPP http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Online_Status, you may want to share your opinion even there, thanks. Petrb (talk) 12:09, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Citation tool
I was told that you were looking into fixing the AJAX-based citation tool that's available in the editing toolbar for Monobook. Any progress on that? Thanks.  howcheng  {chat} 17:23, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not aware of any breakages still existing, it works for me. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 19:48, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Awesome, thanks.  howcheng  {chat} 19:48, 14 November 2011 (UTC)

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Anon commenting
Hey TheDJ, is this by any chance actually you? It seems a bit unusual to me for such an experienced editor to accidentally (or intentionally, for that matter) comment while logged out and correct themselves by adding something like "oh, and this is XYZ". If this is indeed you, and you have no problem with disclosing (at least some of) the IP addresses you use to edit, you may want to do something like User:Dinoguy1000/Vetted IP edits/User:Dinoguy1000/Vetted IP edits/notice/User:Dinoguy1000/anonsig to prevent future questions like this. ;) 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 23:42, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes that was me. That's all i'll say about it, don't feel the need to create a list of all (dynamic) ip addresses i've ever used. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 12:34, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
 * All right, thanks for confirming. Cheers! =) 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」? · ☎ Dinoguy1000 14:32, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

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Template protected
I noticed you protected Template:Fix/category. It has been vandalised only by IP users so perhaps semi-protection would have been enough. I always feel offended when templates I created get protected, and I myself can't edit them any more. :) Debresser (talk) 22:03, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
 * All other Fix/ templates are fully protected as well, so that is why I went with that choice. The parent template is used on over 300000 pages (likely significantly more), thus changing this one can have huge effects (both in vandalism exposure but also in putting unnecessary burden on the servers). If you feel it is unwarranted, I ask you to open a discussion at WP:RFPU. If you really are frustrated about not being able to edit the template, I can advise you to try for administrator status, or alternatively campaign for a more tiered permissions system in which we can make a distinction between experienced/trusted editors and those who have been around for a week. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 22:54, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your reply. I am really frustrated by that, yes. I often edit templates, and am seriously hindered by protected ones. But I am pretty sure I won't make it to admin. For all the wrong reasons, if you ask me. But that is how it is on Wikipdia: bureaucracy. Debresser (talk) 23:25, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

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Edittop Gadget & RTL
Hi, we want to use the Gadget, MediaWiki:Gadget-edittop.js, in our wiki. But there is a problem with it, our language is RTL and the Edit link will be showed at the right of the page, beside the article title. Could you please assist us with this problem? Regards ● Mehran Debate● 06:22, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I'll take a look. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 14:05, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Hmm, a little bit more difficult than I thought because of https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/مدیاویکی:Vector.js —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 14:51, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * We currently use this gadget to edit the top section. It adds a "0" button near the "Move" button. But that's not very necessary, forget about that if you see it's too difficult and time-consuming. Thanks ● Mehran Debate● 18:27, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
 * It's not impossible, it will just require more work than I had anticipated. And I don't have time available right this instant, but I'll keep it on my radar. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 20:44, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
 * many thanks :) ● Mehran Debate● 07:31, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

Chrome
Does Qui work on Google Chrome? Dan653 (talk) 03:24, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear TheDJ,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the community HERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

So a few things about the interviews:
 * Interviews will last between 15 and 30 minutes.
 * Interviews can be conducted over skype (preferred), IRC or email. (You choose the form of communication based upon your comfort level, time, etc.)
 * All interviews will be completely anonymous, meaning that you (real name and/or pseudonym) will never be identified in any of our materials, unless you give the interviewer permission to do so.
 * All interviews will be completely voluntary. You are under no obligation to say yes to an interview, and can say no and stop or leave the interview at any time.
 * The entire interview process is being overseen by MSU's institutional review board (ethics review). This means that all questions have been approved by the university and all students have been trained how to conduct interviews ethically and properly.

Bottom line is that we really need your help, and would really appreciate the opportunity to speak with you. If interested, please send me an email at obar@msu.edu (to maintain anonymity) and I will add your name to my offline contact list. If you feel comfortable doing so, you can post your name HERE instead.

If you have questions or concerns at any time, feel free to email me at obar@msu.edu. I will be more than happy to speak with you.

Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

Sincerely,

Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) 07:26, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 21:45, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

WikiSnaps
Hi!

How do I get WikiSnaps into my iPhone?

Best regards, Tanzania (talk) 17:17, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

MOTDs (This space for rent)
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Documentation for gadget authors
I saw you had done some work on heavily-used gadgets. We're trying to start a library for gadget authors to use. Please check it out and post any questions or comments there. -- ☠ MarkAHershberger ☢ (talk) ☣ 00:57, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Template:Coord/link
You have been working on Template:Coord/link. Because copy and paste will not work on it, can you give any clue as to how I can incorporate it into another wiki? I have tried to copy a page from wikipedia to the Calendar Wiki, and it uses Template:Coord/link, and I cannot figure out how to get it to work. -- BRG (talk) 15:59, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

User script listing cleanup project
I'm leaving this message for known script authors, recent contributors to Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts, and those who've shown interest in user scripts.

This scripts listing page is in dire need of cleanup. To facilitate this, I've created a new draft listing at Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts cleanup. You're invited to list scripts you know to be currently working and relevant. Eventually this draft page can replace the current scripts listing.

If you'd like to comment or collaborate on this proposal, see the discussion I started here: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject User scripts#Scripts listing cleanup project. Thanks! Equazcion ( talk ) 04:45, 25 Mar 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the notification Equazcion, i have little time to spare atm however, so I don't think i'll be able to participate, but it is good to be aware that some people are on it. ! —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 11:13, 25 March 2012 (UTC)

MathJax review
Since I noticed that you were adding code to the MediaWiki MathJax code and Brion Vibber never responded: Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Mathematics/Archive/2012/Mar. Nageh (talk) 22:47, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Great, if you could help with some more tips, that would be wonderful. List of all Math issues. Especially in regard to how to make macros and other stuff for some of those mentioned missed operations and stuff, that would totally help ! —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 18:04, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Quick review:
 * 1) In wiki2jax.js, "\displaystyle" does not need curly braces as it does not take a parameter.
 * 2) Will fix.
 * 3) in review.
 * 4) In ext.math.mathjax.enabler.js, the function call to TEX.Parse.Augment can be removed in its entirety as MathJax 2.0 includes support for specifying the line spacing in newlines.
 * 5) The default of that new support, is that proper for us ?
 * 6) This call was already removed over that past couple of weeks.
 * 7) * Well, it was not removed when I posted my review (more than that couple of weeks ago). Nageh (talk) 19:34, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 8) I assume you have uploaded also the output HTML-CSS jax's STIX font directory. In that case you should include "STIX" as one of the "availableFonts".
 * 9) I'm not sure if this was done yet. We didn't import the fonts because they were 120Mb, but that probably means they are not installed on anything but perhaps brion's machine I presume.
 * 10) In texvc.js, quick-and-dirty support for color is not needed anymore as MathJax 2.0 includes an extension for the color command. See this diff.
 * 11) In TeX-AMS-texvc_HTML.js, if you remove the hackish color support from above, you must include "color.js" as one of the preloaded "TeX" extensions since otherwise the \color macro will be interpreted wrongly (MathJax 1.0-style instead of TeX-style). Also, you must include "cancel.js", which will not be loaded automatically.
 * 12) Color already removed, cancel is on my todo list for today. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 18:37, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Ad 2.: The call to TEX.Parse.Augment was copied over from my sources. I have implemented this back for MathJax version 1.1, which did not include support for newline options. Version 2.0 does, so this hack is not needed anymore.
 * Ad 3: Only the PNG image font takes that much memory, the STIX fonts is just a package of 2.5 MB. But you are confusing the actual fonts with the support for it, which I'm pretty sure Brian has uploaded (I have omitted them only because of the inconvenience of uploading large numbers of files as a user).
 * For a few of the missing symbols (if anyone really needs them): diff.
 * Nageh (talk) 18:47, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Added a couple more of the missing symbols. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 17:22, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks. [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ANageh%2FmathJax%2Fconfig%2FTeX-AMS-texvc_HTML.js&diff=486528289&oldid=485202027 Here] is a bit more. Nageh (talk) 00:04, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * And a near-perfect implementation of \oiint and a better one of \oiiint: [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ANageh%2FmathJax%2Fconfig%2FTeX-AMS-texvc_HTML.js&diff=486638683&oldid=486528289 diff]. Works correctly with display and inline maths, and with HTML-CSS and MathML output. Nageh (talk) 15:29, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Also, can't we discuss MathJax issues on a Wiki page rather than on Bugzilla, I'm so sick of creating a zillion accounts. Nageh (talk) 18:54, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Well bugzilla is where code is discussed unfortunately. So it's the only place where developers usually look in their day to day flow. You can't focus on everything :D —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 19:05, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Also, if people would actually read my User talk:Nageh/mathJax pages we could avoid some of the bug reports, e.g., 35186, 35190, and 35188. Regarding 35481, you could redefine macros that you wouldn't want. Nageh (talk) 19:01, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Can you explain what  actually does ? I'm trying to catch up with the MathJax way, but these are parts that don't seem to be well documented I think. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 19:14, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * It defines a macro called 'arcsec' that gets implemented as a call to the function 'NamedOp' (defined in jax/input/jax.js) and takes 0 arguments. Nageh (talk) 19:32, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Ah, it basically means, "treat this as an operation with the exact same name and print that name in text". Got it. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 20:01, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Eventually did these with NamedFn, because it was in line with similar functions in the 2.0 jax.js —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 21:42, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Did you/Brian confirm that you can now override commands defined in one of the AMS extensions? If not, the code commented out in did consider exactly that. Nageh (talk) 19:39, 26 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Davide on matchjax-users says that code doesn't actually work; not sure what the proper fix is atm. --brion (talk) 19:58, 26 March 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, it sure works for me. Maybe you can check with my script: User:Nageh/mathJax.js (it's the StartupHook call). Nageh (talk) 20:37, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I read up Davide's comments on the user mailing list. If the issue with the code is due to bad timing of the "End Extensions" hook simply select another one. I'm pretty much at loss though why Davide claims the code does not do what it is intended to do. It works in my setup because the AMS extensions are loaded in advance. Simply implement another hook and run the code, then it should also work in your setup (and for IE). Nageh (talk) 22:25, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

If you still want to support user-defined macros you should not remove support for it (the one line with userConfig):. Nageh (talk) 19:42, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Symbols
I note that the added symbols have a considerable different style than most math symbols, because they don't get the AMS styling... Would you happen to have any ideas for that ? P.S. you added \digamma to your version, but that one is actually in AMS already, it was only the \Digamma that was not present. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 20:48, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * They look pretty normal to me, and they are supported both by the TeX and the STIX fonts. Can you clarify how the symbols are supposed to look? (Thanks for pointing out the duplicate \digamma, btw.) Nageh (talk) 21:08, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * They are smaller for instance. It's because they get this styling:, whereas AMS symbols only get   —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 21:13, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Ok, I see what's going on. The problem is that while the symbols are supported in the Math and AMS fonts they are not supported by the MathJax HTML/CSS output jax code. Basically, this means that we need to kindly ask Davide from the MathJax crew to add support for these symbols if we do not want to painfully add the glyph outlines ourselves. Nageh (talk) 22:19, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

Done for the day now, but more to come... —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 22:30, 26 March 2012 (UTC)

MediaWiki:Gadget-popups.js bug
hi.

i already reported the issue in User talk:Amalthea, but unfortunately he/she seems a bit too busy and did not have time to look at it yet, so i'm asking you.

the bug itself is very obvious once you look at the code. the issue is that function removeTitle destroys the value of a.title just before copying it to a.originalTitle, which is clearly wrong - we should copy first and nuke later. this is somewhat important, specifically because of other gadgets (e.g. cat-a-lot) that rely on title - we can train them to use "originalTitle" instead, but only if it actually have the correct value. this bug also screws up the operation of the functions restoreTitle and removeTooltip. the fix is very simple.

peace - קיפודנחש (talk) 14:58, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Not perfect yet, still seems to loose the title if you mouse in and out and in again before the popup timer elapses, but it should be quite a bit better. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 17:27, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks! tha was fast... peace - קיפודנחש (talk) 18:07, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

mathJax update
FYI – Summary of recent updates: [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ANageh%2FmathJax%2Fconfig%2FTeX-AMS-texvc_HTML.js&diff=486653054&oldid=485202027 diff]. Includes improved \oiint and \oiiint support, support for \textsf and \texttt (\emph is a text mode command and should not be supported, IMO), support for \vline (works perfectly in HTML-CSS output mode), noErrors.js extension has been removed (no idea why I had included it in the first place), and support for the RGB color model (so \definecolor does not fail anymore). Nageh (talk) 17:01, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the update notification. I've not had time to spend in the past 2 weeks, but I hope I can forward this a bit again this week. —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 17:06, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Talkback
Ron Ritzman (talk) 00:00, 11 April 2012 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Keep up the good work! I've hatted a piece of sourcecode that caused horizontal scrollbars to appear; I hope you don't mind.

Arcandam (talk) 23:43, 2 May 2012 (UTC) 

Edit Top Gadget
Due to a change in how we're handling page icons, we're about to start using your Edit Top script as a Gadget on our site, but it looks like our community would prefer that the [edit] link be to the left of any page icons rather than on the outside edge of the page. Is this something you can do easily? I'm certainly willing to look at it myself, but my DOM and Javascript skills are next to nil, so I'd probably struggle with it for some time before getting it. Thanks either way! – RobinHood70 talk 01:05, 3 May 2012 (UTC)


 * Never mind, I got it. Thanks for reading, anyway. :) – RobinHood70 talk 04:13, 4 May 2012 (UTC)