User talk:Zocky/2006

Leeds Student Radio Redirect
Thank you for setting it up

Barry Carlyon 16:25, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

User:Zocky/Article survey
If you need it, I may be able to help out here, at least partly. Mind if I annotate a couple things on that page? Rob Church Talk 21:21, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Bad Thing
I don't know - it was pretty clearly a Bad Thing by the time Tony deleted them all, and yet he did so. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates! ) 02:19, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

include_js
Hi, I noticed this thing in your monobook.js but couldn't see where you defined it. Is it a greasemonkey thing? It might make sense to add such a neat function to a site-wide javascript file to simplify script installation. (I'd like to see it support non-user javascript files and specific revisions if we go down that route). Lupin|talk|popups 16:42, 5 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Heh, I was fooled by the large amount of whitespace :-) Found it now! Lupin|talk|popups 16:48, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

RFC/KM
You commented on Kelly Martin's second RfC. it is up for archival. you may vote at Wikipedia_talk:Requests_for_comment/Kelly_Martin. CastAStone|(talk) 03:46, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

POTD archives
Hi Zocky,

Thanks for the update to {POTDArchiveHeader}. I was thinking I should get around to getting the 2005/2006 archive links straightened out for the new year. -- Solipsist 20:08, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

User:Zafiroblue05/Draft
I just noticed that the header from this draft contains the same bug that's present in earlier versions: a broken book image when viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. You eliminated this problem by introducing a different type of coding (present in some of the other drafts, including this one). I attempted to adapt the IE-compatible setup (by replacing the portal links with the search box and magnifying glass image), but I was unsuccessful. If you know how to do this, it would be sincerely appreciated. Thanks! &mdash;David Levy 17:15, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Your vote on the RFR poll
Hi, Zocky, you voted oppose on the requests for rollback privileges consensus poll, suggesting that people who would like rollback should just become admins instead - that being an admin is "no big deal". While I think that in an "ideal" Wikipedia, this would indeed be the case, I believe that over time standards for becoming an administrator have clearly risen. This is apparent by looking at the RFA system throughout Wikipedia's existence - intially, all one had to do to become an admin was just ask nicely, now we have a complicated procedure. A recent proposal on the RFA talk page for requiring at least 30 minimum support votes and a significant number of existing contributions was given some serious consideration. There is frequent talk of "bad admins slipping through the RFA net", and while you may not agree with that philosophy of adminship it is undeniable that the standards have risen.

Because of this, candidates who pass are already very experienced with Wikipedia. While this in itself is no bad thing, it means that for the month or so before they become admins they are not being given the tools an admin has which would help them to improve Wikipedia, by removing vandalism and performing administrative tasks such as moving pages. The qualities which make a good administrator are not determined by length of stay on Wikipedia or number of friends you have, but by personality and character. Time at Wikipedia only gives familiarity with the way things are done here. However, being at Wikipedia for an extra month doesn't grant any special insight into the ability to determine which edits are vandalism and which are not. This is why I believe that we should hand out rollback to contributors who are clearly here to improve Wikipedia but won't pass the RFA procedure because of their percieved lack of familiarity with policy by some Wikipedians. I think that adminship should be no big deal, like you, however I see just two ways to make sure Wikipedians can quickly and efficiently remove vandalism - either by all those who believe adminship should be no big deal involving themselves much more in RFA, or by supporting this proposal and giving out rollback to good contributors who have not yet been here long enough to become admins. We have to remember that our ultimate aim here is to produce an encyclopedia, and we should balance the idealism of "adminship should be no big deal" with the pragmatism of granting rollback to our best non-admin contributors. I would be very grateful if you would reconsider your viewpoint on this issue. Thanks, Talrias (t | e | c) 13:54, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Question on Yugoslavian languages
Hi, this may seem like a rather irrelevant question. What is the degree of intelligibility between Slovenian and Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian/Montenegrin? Apparently, one of the reasons for the unity between the people of the former Yugoslavia (from 1918 with the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes) was a degree of mutual intelligibility between their languages. I read somewhere that the differences between modern Serbian and Croatian are more like those between American and British English. Can the same be said for Slovenian? Latinus 19:07, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

Participant alert regarding Wikiproject on Advertising
The Wikiproject No Ads, created as a backlash against the Answers.com deal, has served an important function in providing a space for users to express their disagreement with the Foundation proposal. While the current controversies about userboxes raise questions about political and social advocacy on Wikipedia, there should be greater flexibility regarding advocacy about Wikipedia in the Wikipedia namespace. Reported and linked by Slashdot and other press sources as a unique and spontaneous occurence in Wikipedia history, it has apparently had some impact as, despite being scheduled to begin in January, not a peep has been heard about the trial and proposed sponsored link since the deal's controversial announcement months ago. Currently, however, there is an attempt to delete the project or move it off Wikipedia altogether. Since the Foundation has provided no additional information and has not attempted to answer the specific questions that participants in the project raised, it is unclear if the Answers.com deal has been abandoned or simply delayed. Until the situation becomes more clear, I believe the group should still have a place in the Wikipedia namespace. Sincerely, Tfine80 00:29, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

RfC Agapetos Angel
Why was this deleted? The "private info" all came from a public source available to everyone on the planet, thus it is not private. In addition, the info and the steps taken to cover it up, including the creation of a false Google page by DennisF, are germane to this user's misconduct. Jim62sch 13:03, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Can you explain what you mean by "what seems to be a lot of private info disclosure until I read it. please do not undelete without first reading it yourself"? Are you saying that you haven't read it?  If an RFC is not acceptable, can you suggest an alternative means of dispute resolution with a person who deletes my every attempt to address our dispute as "trolling"?  Guettarda 13:47, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I obviously read it immediately after I deleted it and decided to keep it deleted until ArbCom decides about it. Please continue this discussion at Requests for arbitration. Zocky | picture popups 17:57, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Jonathan Sarfati
If you want to delete information, you need to pick the diffs, not delete the whole talk page. In addition, I can't see how you can justify deleting something that you can't be bothered to read. Guettarda 14:41, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


 * Only the history has been restored. The page itself still ends at February 2nd.  Quite honestly, Guettarda is correct, deleting the page is not the answer, nor is merely restoring history.  If you restored it as means of deleting certain diffs, fine, but a bit of communication would be a good thing.  Jim62sch 15:13, 17 February 2006 (UTC)

Picture popups
Hello Zocky : ) Thank you for making the picture popups available. It is a great feature. Your customer service is amazing; stopping by and offering advice without a request! Wow, I see that your involved in the AA/Guettarda mess, too. Going to interesting watching Arb comm sort this mess out.  FloNight   talk   04:04, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject Former Yugoslavia
Zocky, WikiProject Former Yugoslavia is now up and running. You are invited to come and participate! --dcabrilo 23:24, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

Date links
Since you have taken an interest in links. Please be kind enough to vote for my new bot application to reduce overlinking of dates where they are not part of date preferences. bobblewik 20:29, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

automated editing of userpages...
...is something I feel should be discouraged, especially after seeing some of the responses to Catapult's edits on user:freakofnurture's talk page. I've re-removed the signature link in my archive, but perhaps reconsider using bots to edit the user namespace. ericg &#9992; 07:25, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Request for Arbitration
Be advised that I am in the process of filing a Request for Arbitration in relation to the edit war between Guanaco and MarkSweep. You are being named as an involved party. Kelly Martin (talk) 01:29, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Your message
Thanks for your message; I left my note on his page after looking at his contributions history, though, and he's been editing since 1 June 2005... --Phronima 13:54, 7 March 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, you're probably right. I don't remember, but I was probably feeling irritated at all the other New-page people I'd been dealing with, and let it slop over onto him. I need to watch that. --Phronima 16:57, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Thank you for the carnation, that's really started my day off with a smile :) -- sannse (talk) 09:13, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al
Hello,

An Arbitration case involving you has been opened: Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al. Please add evidence to the evidence sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Guanaco, MarkSweep, et al/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, Johnleemk | Talk 16:47, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Template:Legend
Hello Zocky, Just to let you know I've copied the fab Template:Legend you originated to Wikimedia Commons and have already begun using it there. Hope that's okay. Thanks for introducing it! Best wishes, David Kernow 02:47, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Don't disturb
Don't disturb collaborators of this site. Your communist and titoist propaganda are infamous. The great assassin dictator Tito was master of Miloscevic: foibe massacres; the mausoleum of jugoslav dictator is great insult against Italians and a lot of jugoslavs executed by dictator. A lot of slovenes were executed by killer Tito not Benito Mussolini: Mussolini for you was leader or dictator? Mussolini for you was killer of many slovenes more than Tito? Tito was criminal dictator more than Mussolini but now Tito has mausoleum not Mussolini! Do you like dictator as Tito, Mussolini, Miloscevic, Mao Tse Tung, Castro, Gheddafi....? Do you know how many italian soldiers stay now in ex Jugoslavia for criminal dictators as Tito and his pupil Miloscevic? Do you like ethnic jugoslav wars too? Stop titoist propaganda, stop it! collaborator Pio

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Hello! I invite you to join the WikiProject Serbia. All the best, -- serbiana -  talk  02:39, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Slovenia
What do you think about Slovenia's consitution? Do you think that there is a chance that it will return the Croats, Serbs and others back into it like before 1990? --HolyRomanEmperor 17:56, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Advertising
So there is an interesting thread on the Foundation list right now for an advertising proposal. No cause for any concern, because this thread has had zero involvement from anyone actually with Wikimedia yet. ... This proposal is different from other proposals: What is proposed is that a user preference would be added which is off by default, but when turned on would add some adwords add in the left sidebar like Wikia has... Anonymous users would not see them, only users who turn them on. The income from this scheme to Wikimedia would be fairly limited, but we are already fairly limited on how much income we can bring in from advertising (due to the charitable non-profit status of the foundation). I see this as being an option for frequent users and editors who wish to contribute to the costs of running the foundation but whom either can't afford to donate, or already contribute much of their time.

I think this idea may be acceptable to the vast majority of editors, including those who have historically opposed advertising. I thought it would be useful to ask other advertising opposed users, so I visited wikiproject no ads and grabbed your name because you were someone whos name I knew. If the idea is opposed, I won't push it further. It isn't worth an extensive effort to sell it. So, I'd like to know what you think of this proposal. Your thoughts? --Gmaxwell 05:57, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Agreed that we don't want full time all user adds, and we couldn't anyways (full time ads on wikipedia would translate into about $100million/yr btw, which is the only reason anyone ever bothers talking about them) due to the tax implications. I'm not sure I buy the slippery slope argument here, after all: it is clear that opt in ads for editors are a fundimentally different thing than defaul ads for readers. In any case, what sort of gain do you think would make it worth it? What if it were enough to pay for another person to work full time on Wikipedia? In any case, thanks for your thoughts. --Gmaxwell 06:46, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Caroline Cox, Baroness Cox
Have you checked the history of the page? It was infested with sock puppetry, and the sock puppetry involved should be considered vandalism. Please explain why you feel protection was not proper in light of that. --Nlu (talk) 05:45, 26 April 2006 (UTC) Italic text

Date math templates
Hey, Zocky. It was good to chat with you on IRC last night. I found a guy who knows even more than I do about date calculations: User:Verdy P. You should see what he did to Template:AMPM, for example..

Let's work with him on standardization of parameters and stuff like that, okay? --Uncle Ed 16:59, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

Search Box (request)
I like your tool, I found no faults, but I 've few requests. Isn't better to place the bar under the standard bar!? Can you display, if "replace all" is used, the count of replacements (in status-line / alert-box)!? —Olliminatore 15:27, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

The [replace all] don't work for me: Error: [Exception... "'Die Erlaubnis für das Setzen der Eigenschaft XULElement.selectedIndex wurde verweigert' when calling method: [nsIAutoCompletePopup::selectedIndex]"  nsresult: "0x8057001e  (NS_ERROR_XPC_JS_THREW_STRING)"  location: "JS frame :: http://...&action=edit :: onmouseover :: line 1"  data: no]


 * Here is a version that count the replacements de:Benutzer:PDD/wpTextReplace.js — Olliminatore 10:20, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * *More tested* Please remove the onmouseover.event, it don't works!?! (I've suggested this bevor, what do you intend therewith?) If I want push a button it jumps to the textfield and the button isn't pressed?!? (The new countings in the statusbar only works in IE and with activating permission also in Firefox :-p.)The RegExp also don't works for [search for:] (\)\n). greetings --Olliminatore 09:53, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Why you don't remove the onmouseover.focus??? It's not needed and bad JavaScript. My window jumps back and forth. Also if you test with an solution of 640, you are absolutely not able to edit somewhat. --Olliminatore 19:47, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I have tried it on small resolution and in my firefox it looks normally, without any jumping, especially if you reduce the size of the edit box in the preferences. Due to non-compliancy in the current generation of browsers, selection is not displayed when a control doesn't have focus, so without the onmouse event, the user would not see the selected text nor the cursor position before clicking find next or replace. I tried it like that at first and it was bad. I might add a setting for this when I do the next rewrite. Zocky | picture popups 19:55, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Ok, I think you can replace this (focus/ click function) with onmousedown!? --Olliminatore 13:40, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

The complaint
Could you please confirm that you have tried to talk to Samuel, and that you certify basis for his disputed deletion of the article. I believe his actions were not appropriate, given that majority of the people voted keep.  Just sign over at the relevant section Users certifying the basis for this dispute and put a link to the talk page with Samuel as evidence of your attempts. Thanks.BabaRera 02:19, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

About unprotection
I will stand by your unprotection. It was protected due to a stalker both on and off here.-- Dakota  ~ 17:26, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your help
Thank you for your help regarding User:DakotaKahn earlier. ForgetNever 17:35, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Just doing what's right in general, without any presumption of who's right about the particular issue. Zocky | picture popups 17:44, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

El kondor pada
The article was deleted in its original form because of lack of notability and lack of references to prove its notability. Nothing has changed. User:Zoe|(talk) 18:07, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Unprotect?
Err, do you really think something said in a chat room is a good reason to unprotect a page? I don't like the idea of on-wiki consequences for off-wiki behavior. Friday (talk) 21:01, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Ustasha victims
I might be under influence of Croatian propaganda of school textbooks - but over 200,000 is the most common figure found in Croatian textbooks. See the Bleiburg massacre article. I mean, I always thought that those numbers were overinflated, but how much? ANy assistence? --HolyRomanEmperor 16:19, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Bad faith
Two recreations under different names are clearly bad faith attempts at violating Wikipedia policies. User:Zoe|(talk) 20:57, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

I have no intention of doing either. User:Zoe|(talk) 22:15, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for voting in my RfA!
Wanted the opportunity to say thanks for voting in my RfA! Nice page! Thanks for the kind words in the nom; it did not gain consensus but I'm glad I accepted it. - Amgine 20:34, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Search box protection
Is it really necessary to full-protect your page on the your searchbox tool? Seems a tad excessive. --maru  (talk)  contribs 01:18, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Pretenders Ernst August
Please see Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles) and constibute to the discussion there. I look forward to people assessing UE:should English be used in all these cases and how; would any sort of numeral be acceptable; what are the correct ordinals anyway; and Is there any other sustainable way to disambiguate these systematically. Shilkanni 11:14, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Smile


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Articles for deletion/Clara Guerrero
I note that you recommended a speedy keep on this article and I thought I'd let you know why that wasn't a valid idea on this AFD. A speedy keep can only arise if the nomination is withdrawn or was a disruption, and there are no other votes to delete. If you wish to express an emphatic view that the article should be kept, please use "strong keep" instead. Thanks! Stifle (talk) 23:19, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Picture popups
I just started using your picture popups script, and I think it's amazing! It works seamlessly with Wikipedia; I don't think I'll be able to turn back. Nice work! &#8212; Inky 15:53, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Bulgaria location map
Hey Zocky, your Location map for Croatia and Slovenia is amazing! Could you make one for Bulgaria using Image:Bu-map-blank.png (hope we'll have some better and larger one in the future that'd suit the template ;))? Thanks in advance! Todor Bozh inov    → 10:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, it is amazing! Maybe you should put something on the Village Pump about it so it can become more widely known and used.--Pharos 00:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh well, you've done a great job, but the map just doesn't seem to be fine on most towns I checked — I used a somewhat old regions map together with the CIA one to create it and it had some errors that I had to fix manually, but looks like I haven't coped with them :( Anyway, there's the somewhat small and not particularly shiny Image:Blank location in Bulgaria.png. At least, it is reliable since versions of it are used in most Wikipedia articles (but a red point is added graphically). It looks like you'd better use that one. And thanks for the work and the great template! Todor Bozh inov    → 15:30, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Umm, I'm sorry, I think I understand what I have to be looking for although I'm not really into those things specifically, but unfortunately I doubt I would be able to find a suitable and free map of this kind. I hope you'll be able to fix the problem if there's one with the borders calculation though, the template is of great use and I'd really like to implement it in articles about Bulgarian towns and villages! Todor Bozh inov    → 18:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

User:Jamal Curtis
Molim te, pogledaj njegovu korisničku stranicu i ono sto je napisao useru C-c-c-c na talk-pageu. Reklo bi se da je ili on Dzoni ili netko nesto gadno mulja. Hvala. Jakiša Tomić 17:26, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Hey there. Neither Jakisa Tomic nor I know exactly what to do about this. Dzoni has now gained a sockpuppet named "Jamal Curtis," as well as (I think) cetnici. Would you advise?

Tanager 01:37, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Double diacritics
I reverted your edit to Pronunciation respelling for English. Arial Unicode MS, and I think a handful of others, misalign the diacritics, but the way it is now is the correct ordering and will be properly aligned by most fonts. --Ptcamn 18:10, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Cleavage
Why do you think "Exposure of the "down under" side of the breast such as below an extremely short crop top is known as Australian cleavage." is a funny sentence? Ghosts&amp;empties 15:06, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

WikiLove!


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TfD
Since you participated in the Templates for deletion discussion apropos of Template:Legal disclaimer, I think I ought to let you know that in my hasty cutting-and-pasting, I inadvertently removed part of my nomination, such that it didn’t fully enumerate the reasons for deletion and was syntactically troublesome in any event. The nomination, which read the template is used only twice (once in mainspace), its existence but absence from nearly every page to which it could be appended surely invites one salient objection from NDT, viz., that "The lack of the disclaimer on a page might open Wikipedia to lawsuits", ought to have begun with This template is self-referential and in any event in contravention of No disclaimer templates; inasmuch as; I've now appended the omitted portion. Since, notwithstanding the malformed nom, you supported delete, this change likely won’t affect your views, but I didn’t feel comfortable revising the nom without alerting those who had participated in the discussion. My apologies for my oversight. Cordially, Joe 16:55, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

english version
There is a move request under discussion at Talk:House of Karadjordjević Henq 09:46, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Picture popups on mac
I'm still enjoying picture popups after all this time... when I use it on a mac running Firefox, it activates even when I hold the command key to open a new tab. I think that the fix is to change if (!e.ctrlKey && !e.shiftKey &&e.target.tagName=='IMG') to if (!e.ctrlKey && !e.shiftKey && !e.metaKey &&e.target.tagName=='IMG') Lupin|talk|popups 00:41, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

User:Zocky/Search_Box
any hope for a lifting of this restriction? Increasing columns doesn't really work for me as I am on many different machines, and variable width is a better approach... Also is there a way to reduce the height? Maybe by making the widgets all fit into one row? I'm hard up for screen height as it is. Thanks!  + + Lar: t/c 15:34, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

only when needed
I find your Search box quite handy when needed, but a bit inconvenient when not (as it does reduce the edit are a bit). So what I've done in my implementation of it is a simple toggle via URI query string (requiring a querystring function (included)). So, that when I am editing a page and decide I want the searchbox, I simply append &searchbox=1 to the URI (adding an action button or tool button to do this might be easier, but when the link changes all the edits made to the page prior to adding the search box are lost, so it probably wouldn't be a good idea). Since I probably won't need to use this tool very often, though, this works for me (and some of your advanced users might find it handy too). --Splarka (rant) 01:45, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

if(queryString("searchbox")) document.write(' ');

function queryString(p) { var re = RegExp('[&?]' + p + '=([^&]*)'); var matches; if (matches = re.exec(document.location)) { try { return decodeURI(matches[1]); } catch (e) { } } return null; };


 * Could this be tabified so that if you realise you needed it you could press a tab/button and have it suck the current edit content window out, and put you back into edit mode (for whatever section you were on, don't lose that) with the text as is put in? This would be a hack until the size thing was fixed but might be useful.  + +Lar: t/c 17:49, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

OK, I've now changed it so that the searchbox appears (and the edit box is contracted) only when you need it. Click the icon in the toolbar, or press alt-f. Zocky | picture popups 16:08, 15 June 2006 (UTC)


 * &hearts; &hearts; &hearts; Thanks! --Splarka (rant) 06:32, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Very nice feature, thanks Zocky. I was about to leave you a message asking what happened to the search box :-) -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  06:45, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Arg, (having played with it for 20 minutes) now have a few bugs to report though: If there is no toolbox on a page, then it shows the box all the time (like on javascript/css edit pages). Also, having it enabled by default (I tested it, the old version does it too) I noticed that edit pages (in my version of Firefox) behave annoyingly: If you edit a page, hit 'show preview/show changes/save' (or even go forward or back in the history) and then return to the page, all changes to the page are lost, and the page is back to how it was when the edit page was loaded. Note: I am testing this offsite on a slightly older MW1.7 install, but these problems seem browser/script-specific and not site-specific. --Splarka (rant) 06:51, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Heh, the first issue is a "feature". Any suggestions for what to do instead? Zocky | picture popups 11:15, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Interesting. I noticed the js / css page thing, but didn't bother too much as I edit these pages very infrequently. The other bug you mention is more interesting. In the last couple of days I have lost edits caused by edit conflicts. Normally, hitting the back button restores the edit window with the previously typed text still intact, but now it gets lost. Is this possibly connected to the recent changes to SearchBox.js? The timing seems to be roughly the same, hmmm. -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  09:25, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Update: after an edit conflict 20mins ago, hitting the back button restored the edit window perfectly - explain??. Just another Mediawiki quirk and nothing to do with Zocky's script I suspect. -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  10:48, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I've noticed the same thing recently, but I'm not sure what causes it and whether it's caused by the tool. Anyway, I've noticed it some time ago, before these last changes, so it should not be related to them. I'll try looking through the code, but I don't think it should be anything in the tool itself. It may possibly even be a bug in Firefox. I'll post more when I have a better idea. Zocky | picture popups 11:10, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

I haven't been able to reproduce that behaviour, but I realized that "toggle case" shouldn't really be in the searchbox, but rather in the toolbar. I've also changed the behaviour on pages without a toolbar. Zocky | picture popups 15:38, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I just verified that it does it (resets the edit box) on enwp for me, as well as another non-mediawiki 1.7 install, whenever this javascript is being executed (even with the toolbox hidden). It does it with [show preview], [show changes], edit conflicts (and clicking 'back'), as well as clicking back and going back to the page, or visiting another page and clicking back. It does not do it when switching tabs, resizing the window, switching windows, or anything else that does not cause the javascript to execute. Note: It also does it with the last version prior to the hidden toggle addition (copied test). It is possibly likely due to some change the javascript performs on the wpTextbox1 causing it to reinitialize from the html in the on each load? Using mozilla. I've also added this issue to User:Zocky/Search_Box (hope that is ok). --Splarka (rant) 22:39, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmmm... I don't see what I'm doing in the script which could specifically trigger that. And for some reason, I can't get it to do that again. It may be some weird bug in Firefox. Zocky | picture popups 22:53, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I just had the same thing happen without using the tool at all - I went to history and back, and the changes were lost. Rather weird. I'll ask devs if it could have something to with Mediawiki, although I'm not sure how it could. Zocky | picture popups 10:58, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Was the load script active though? Had it added toolbox buttons? It does it for me even if I don't display the tool at all. --Splarka (rant) 11:24, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Devs say that it's likely a browser bug. I remember that I had this problem all the time with FireFox 1.0, without any custom scripts loaded. Are you using the latest version of Mozilla? Zocky | picture popups 11:28, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I am using an older version, but several others have reported it, so it can't be just me. In fact, it is likely to be a browser feature ^_^.
 * I have I think traced the specific problem with some experimentation: If a form is placed into the document with insertBefore, all forms on the page are reinitialized. Even something as simple as:  sr.innerHTML=' ';  does it. --Splarka (rant) 11:47, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Update: It doesn't reinitialize if you insert all but the, which means to "fix" it you would basically have to put it into the existing edit page form (...if you even can, I cheated with a ). However, it totally breaks all the buttons. Would it be possible and practical to have it operate within the form? My javascript skills fail me on that question. --Splarka (rant) 11:58, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

What's the upshot here now? what should we do to use the latest/greatest? thanks!  + +Lar: t/c 15:21, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Use the latest firefox and the script as it is, and it shouldn't happen. I'll look into making it work without making an additional form. Shouldn't be too hard, but I'm busy with real life work at the moment, and will be gone over the weekend, so likely next week. Zocky | picture popups 15:39, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


 * The new feature be nice, but (if I press the new "Magnifying glass" button) the form (textfield 'wpTextbox1') gets resized (smaller)?!? --Olliminatore 19:55, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes. Without knowing the width of the editbox, it's impossible to calculate where the box should be scrolled to show the found text. There is no way in javascript to find out the actual width of a textarea if it's set to a relative size (%) in css. So, when you use the search box, the editbox is resized to a fixed size, as set in your preferences ("columns") and overrides the "full width editbox" setting.Zocky | picture popups 13:46, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not behind my PC, but you can try innerWidth (to get the size). --Olliminatore 20:25, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * No. InnerWidth returns the width of windows and frames, not controls, and anyway, it's in pixels, which is useless for our purposes. Zocky | picture popups 20:40, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes of course, but clientWidth and offsetWidth works for sure! --Olliminatore 13:47, 19 September 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind comment
As I find your thoughts reasonable regarding the removal of unblock requests I would like to know what you think about a block for alleged sockpuppetry without presenting any evidence, without reacting to my protest on my talk page and with this as reply when asked about it. Am I over sensitive if I find this offensive? Socafan 12:51, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I suggested some changes to the policies and asked to enforce those we already have:   Socafan 18:22, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Picture Popups - Opera Compatible css.
You may be interested that I have made an Opera-compatible PicturePopups.css, have a look here: User:Konstable/PicturePopups.css. Not sure whether it will still work with Firefox. Cheers.--Konstable 14:40, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Clarification: by Opera-compatible I meant that the image copyright tag is displayed correctly (when it can be). I've tested this for version 9 beta.--Konstable 23:46, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I haven't been able to get it to work in Opera 8, and it does deform some icons in Firefox. Maybe we should wait until Opera 9 is released and see what can be done then. Zocky | picture popups 21:35, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

License tagging for Image:Button case.png
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SearchBox.js
Hi Zocky! I'm wondering why did you add another button for the SearchBox today? Did you do this just because you find it better looking this way or are there other deeper technical reasons? It seems a bit cluttered now, as this button has no real use when the searchbox is not shown. I'm asking this to know whether I can just copy the previous version of SearchBox.js to my own file or it was somehow flawed. Perhaps you should remove this button. Thanks for your answer. --Eleassar my talk 19:32, 17 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Ctrl-reload should clear that up :). The other button is [[image:button case.png]] for case toggling (word -> WORD -> Word). Zocky | picture popups 19:56, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Only now I understand how this script is supposed to work. You just have to select words. I feel so stupid for not having found this out before. Anyway, it would be useful to allow the user to choose whether to install only one or both and to experiment in a different file than the one that end users link to.

Now I've added PicturePopups too, but they don't seem to work. Could you please have a look at User:Eleassar/monobook.js to see if I've missed something? I cleared my cache completely and even disabled it. I tried both Firefox and IE. Thanks a lot.

Nevermind. Your tools are great. --Eleassar my talk 20:42, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

P.S.: Could you prepare a list of strings that can be translated for your PicturePopups tool, like Lupin has for his popups here?

Searchbox replace all function
Not sure if it's a js conflict in my monobook.js or not, but the replace all function only replaces the first occurrence of a search / replace item. Anybody else having similar problems? -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  16:56, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I've noticed it acts weirdly at times, but I haven't figure out a pattern. Does it always do just one replacement for you? Zocky | picture popups 17:25, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm not entirely sure. I think it has done some correctly in the past, but all the recent ones (past week or so) have definitely only done the first one. Clicking the "replace all" button after the first replace then has no further effect and I have to cycle through them individually. Hope that helps. -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  17:37, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Is that with a normal search or using regexps? Zocky | picture popups 17:42, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Straightforward vanilla normal search :-( -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  18:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm, that works perfectly for me. Can you tell me a page where it happens and what you typed in the boxes? Zocky | picture popups 18:53, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * How odd, I did a replace of / * here and it worked perfectly this time. Will keep an eye on future behaviour and let you know. Cheers. -- Cactus.man   &#9997;  19:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
 * OK Zocky, I've discovered the source of the problem :-) If there is any text highlighted in the edit box, the "replace all" function doesn't work, unless the highlighted text includes the search term. In this case it just does the first one and leaves the replacement text highlighted, therefore it will not proceed because there is highlighted text without the search term included. If there is no highlighted text in the search box, it works perfectly. Hope that helps you work a fix. -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  12:14, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Sorry for missing this earlier. That's a feature, not a bug :) It allows you to do replace all on the text you selected, as opposed to doing it on the entire text. I don't think this behavior should be changed, maybe just made more obvious somehow. I'm not sure how though. Zocky | picture popups 21:03, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * What if you had a message noting a finished replace-all: alert("Replace completed. " + SomeVariable + " occurances found"); (after all, many text programs alert you after a replace all). And modify it for a replace all with selected text: alert("Replace completed. " + SomeVariable + " occurances found.\nNote: Replace all was limited to selected text.\nDeselect to search entire document.");. Possibly also, you could include a [find all] button, which would just pop up an alert with the number of occurances. This could be useful before deciding what to replace. --Splarka (rant) 00:12, 28 June 2006 (UTC) PS I tested the Dev version of popup, see my talk page for details).


 * Ah, OK, I can see how that would be useful. I'll just remember to unselect before I start. All I can suggest to make it more obvious would be an extra text input area labelled "search highlighted text for", or something similar. It would make the search replace box wider, but there's plenty of space left (at least on my screen resolution). -- Cactus.man  &#9997;  09:49, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Slovenian recognition of Montenegro
Hey, do you know, did Slovenia recognise Montenegro? --Dijxtra 10:03, 22 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks. --Dijxtra 10:52, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Image problem for Melbourne Station Infobox
What needs to be done for this image to be able to used. I have verified the source of the logo and there is many other images with the metlink logo on show throughout Wikipedia. How is it not fair use under the logo tag? BTW, the station articles really need the station sign image to give it the likeness to the real stations & signs on the metlink system. Lakeyboy 13:30, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Please read the text in the license tag you placed under Image:MetlinkSignBase 313.gif. It says "please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Image description page" which wasn't done, and also that logos can be used to "to illustrate the organization, item, or event in question", which isn't the case. Zocky | picture popups 15:37, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Well if thats the way it has to be, i'll edit the image so it doesn't display the metlink logo and overwrite the current file. Lakeyboy 03:00, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Cleanup Template
I was cleaning out the non-specific cleanup category and noticed that you made the following change. I'm not really sure what you did, but I assume you copied and pasted some cleanup message from somewhere else in the encyclopedia. As I said, I really don't know what you did. Anyway, it's quite a bit easier if you just use the or  templates. The articles in the cleanup section are sorted by several bots (mine among them), and it makes it a lot easier for them to work. Thanks! -- Alphachimp  talk  00:36, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I just substed it. Zocky | picture popups 00:42, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Yeah that makes sense. It really wreaks havok on my bot. Any chance you could start using the cleanup template? -- Alphachimp   talk  00:46, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh wait...I'm right I think. It's listed in templates that should not be subst'ed . -- Alphachimp   talk  00:47, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * No problem, but it's hard to keep track of what should be and what shouldn't substed and mistakes are inevitable. Your bot should probably know how to deal with the substed template. It shouldn't be too hard to do, apart from keeping people from changing the template beyond recognition. Zocky | picture popups 00:52, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I think the rule is that most things in user talk (warnings) are subst and pretty much all else isn't. I'm not that great at coding.  I'm trying to place the entire subst cleanup template into a small box in the find replace section of AWB...and it includes breaks.  I haven't had much luck so far (trust me, I've tried). -- Alphachimp   talk  00:57, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * We also have afd and other templates which cry fould when not substed. I'm not familiar with AWB, but I guess it should know regular expressions. I'll try to read up on it and get back to you. Zocky | picture popups 00:59, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah thanks a lot. -- Alphachimp  talk  01:09, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I've now changed Template:Cleanup so that it includes start and end tags in HTML comments. If that change holds, all you'll need is a regex like
 * \s*[\s\S]*?<--!\s*end\s+cleanup\s*-->\s*
 * which should find what you need if the template is substed, and continue to work even if people mess with spaces in the template. Hope that helps. Zocky | picture popups 01:19, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * You're amazing. Not a bit of that makes any sense to me, but I'll give it a shot. What would I have to change to make it work for the ((Cleanup-date|MONTH YEAR}} template? Like I said, thank you so much. I'm gonna implement that right now. -- Alphachimp   talk  01:25, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

(deindenting, skip this paragraph if it's confusing). It's amazingly straightforward really - \s means any whitespace character (space, tab and newline), * means preceding character zero or more time and + means one or more times. So the first and the last parts are just allowing optional whitespace before and after the whole cleanup tag, and inside the HTML comments. The somewhat tricky part is the [\s\S]*? bit, which means any of ([]) whitespace (\s) or non-whitespace (\S) characters (effectively meaning any character - usually you use . for any character, but that won't match newlines, which it should in this case). The *? part means zero or more of the preceding (*) but stop first time the whole pattern matches (?) which makes sure that if multiple cleanup tags are substed onto a page, it will match them separately, and not as one big tag, eating up any text in between.

Entirely too much information at once, I know. The parts you need to remember is \s+ = any amount of whitespace, \s* = optional whitespace, and [\s\S]*? = find the text in between end markers. Also, if you need to find characters like * $ ? [ ] { }, you have to escape them by putting a backslash in front of them, so that they are not understood as commands characters (i.e. use \[\[ to match the beginning of a link). If in doubt, escaping interpunction won't hurt. There should be plenty more info at regular expression.

To answer your actual question - you would need to insert the same kind of html comments, with a distinct text in them into the other template, so you can find the tag by similar pattern. Zocky | picture popups 01:43, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * That's really helpful. Thanks so much! Regards, -- Alphachimp   talk  03:01, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

Your definition of ethnic identity
Though people do dance around the term, on an encyclopedia such as this we should stick with the literal definitions. Slavs are not an ethnic branch - at least not any longer. What can be done is the addition of a note that many Slavs share a bond (like to panslavism perhaps). Otherwise this won't work. And also, Slavs do not constitute 1/3rd of Europe. A lot of Russia's population is not Slavic. 72.144.136.64 17:27, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Well not really, Russia completely skews the population of Slavic countrie and they're the one with the most non Slavic people. I'm removing that part but leaving the ethnic reference until it can be re-written. 72.144.136.64 17:55, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Coor dms template
Could you change the divs back to spans in the template, or possibly try specifying in local CSS that it is an inline element? Being a block-level element breaks because it no longer plays well with other inline elements. &mdash; Saxifrage ✎ 01:16, 30 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I suppose if it were changed to, then MediaWiki would still wrap it with   tags in the HTML output due to it being "inline"? (If not, that might be considered a bug down the line and wouldn't be behaviour to rely on...)
 * In what situations does and related show up before the first paragraph of an article? I can think of one offhand in which putting it at the top in-line would be stylistically appropriate. &mdash; Saxifrage ✎ 02:50, 30 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Oh, and on that note, the family of templates should be switched to divs, too. (Since they're placed by CSS, they should be fine as [and possibly ought to be] block elements.) It's recommended that they be placed at the bottom of articles as a convention, but best not to rely on that, yes. &mdash; Saxifrage ✎ 02:53, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Intro to Slavic peoples
Clearly there are users who disagree with and sources to the contrary to calling Slavic peoples both an ETHNIC and LINGUISTIC group. So isn't it better to just state "an indo-european peoples"? This is a seeming neutral way of putting it. Slavs WERE an indo-european body of peoples - but it doesn't necessarily mean they still are tied ethnically. Also, saying that Slavs constitute 1/3rd of Europe is misleading at best as the majority of Slavic speakers are in Russia which (A) doesn't constitute all of Europe and (B) doesn't always have "ethnically" Slavic speakers. 68.212.177.48 04:04, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
 * We do have Talk:Slavic peoples for these discussions, and guess what, this is already discussed there. Zocky | picture popups 09:42, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Can vs May
I noticed this edit. It looks like you're saying that "may" sounds condescending. I think that's unavoidable, because "can" and "may" don't have the same meaning. "You can do" carries the sense of possibility, while "you may do" carries the sense of permission. Perhaps it would be better to reword that thing entirely and say "It's preferable to...". The reason for this is that obviously it's preferable to have stuff on your user page once instead of splattering it all over discussion pages, even where it will be nothing except and unwanted bit of clutter. --Tony Sidaway 21:48, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It's not like users need that page to permit them to have external links on their userpages. At least to my non-native ears, "can" in this instance makes it sound like a suggestion, which is about right. Zocky | picture popups 22:02, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Sneakyness?
Howso? ~ Rangeley ( talk ) 06:15, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Ah, alright. I was worried something was wrong with the image, finally we have something other than a low quality black and white explosion :) ~ Rangeley ( talk ) 06:22, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Location map
Zocky jel bi mogao da napravis Location map za Srbiju ? -- Sasa  Stefa novic  &bull; 23:01, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah, vidim da me je neko preduhitrio, hteo sam isto pitanje da pitam. Ja sam uploadovao mapu Srbije na Wikipedia Commons, pa bih te takođe zamolio da napraviš jedan "location map" i za Srbiju. Hvala unapred, --  G OD OF  J USTICE  02:05, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Image:Orthodox-Church-in-Banja-Luka.jpg
Molim te pogledaj ovu sliku i njenu licenci. Onaj korisnik uporno pokušava da je diskredituje uprkos mom nastojanju da opstane. Da li bi mogao da reaguješ adekvatnim argumentima pošto moj engleski nije najbolji za takve stvari? Hvala. --Pockey 22:32, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Regarding my subpage
I have responded to your comments on my user talk page. --Kurt 11:24, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Image:Paraguay flag large.png listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Paraguay flag large.png, has been listed at. Please look there to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Wwagner 00:57, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

Ad:User:Zocky/SearchBox.js
Hi.

I'm maintaining a Polish version of your search box and I'd like to know if the changes you've made solve some issue or were they just a nicer way to do the same?

I was going to write you about the script anyway as I found some bugs. You'll probably want to see the changes I made.


 * 1) Switching lines help to solve issue with Opera (marking more and more text, not only found text).
 * 2) Adding "/g" solve issue with more than one "\n" per search text.
 * 3) Then there are localisation specific changes...
 * 4) Some clean up with not needed variable (var ep=...).
 * 5) Then there are some comments and a little more descriptive names of variables.
 * 6) Not sure why did I created the div while below "inserting box" comment...

Anyway thoes are not all changes - you may want to compare mine with your version. You may be interested in my way of coding srInit. This in particular: var srBoxCode = ' ' ;

I can work on synchronizing our versions if you like my minor adjustments. It will then probably be easier to maintain both versions.

Best regards, Maciej "Nux" Jaros * *drop a note* * 14:52, 31 August 2006 (UTC).

Articles for deletion/Infotech Strategies
Hello, there seem to have been some misunderstanding. I began the page as a project and the information currently on the page is completely wrong. I would like to delete the entire page because the information currently on is incorrect. Most of the people listed with the company where never employees of the company, and info tech never took over any corporate entities. The company is also not a lobby group. I apologize for the whole mix up, and I would grateful if this page could be deleted. I am trying to avoided damaging a good company image with faulty informationL-KHNY

Inforat...
Thanks for the update on the capitalisation. Sure, it has been a while (July 4th), but I was away over the summer. GastelEtzwane 22:22, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

User:ZockPuppet/monobook.js
Please review this. The page was appering in the speedy deletion category and I assume that you didn't want it deleted. Cheers. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 20:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that was a mistake. Thanks for catching it. Zocky | picture popups 22:28, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Superb
Superb vandalism, Zocky. I'm enormous and enormously flattered. Geogre 19:21, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

TRstatus @Result
Your help will be very appreciated on Election results 2006/en & Election results 2006/status. I failed to put templates properly in the former and still don't understand those mechanism completely. --Aphaia 00:46, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Giano
Hello,

An Arbitration case in which you commented has been opened: Requests for arbitration/Giano. Please add any evidence you may wish the arbitrators to consider to the evidence sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Giano/Evidence. You may also contribute to the case on the workshop sub-page, Requests for arbitration/Giano/Workshop.

On behalf of the Arbitration Committee, MacGyverMagic - Mgm|(talk) 22:13, 24 September 2006 (UTC)

picture popups
hi there! i just installed picture popups - thanks so much for making it. i can't tell you how many resized images i want a closer look at, but to do so you have to chase the link over to the commons which tears me away from the article. my warmest plaudits to you! :D JoeSmack Talk (p-review!) 20:50, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Borba
Good catch on the ad/disambig. Be sure to go tag the user's talk page, too. --Elonka 04:05, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

#wikipedia
Hello Zocky. I'm sorry to hear you have had an unpleasant experience in #wikipedia. I haven't really been present much in the channel for the past few days as a result of several important real life events to take up my time.

Anyhow, the way you describe it to me, the situation has been mostly resolved by JamesF and Raul654. JamesF is the chief Freenode group contact, so anything he says goes, really.

If you find that the situation has not been resolved satisfactorily, I am more than happy to speak with you about this incident further, either on IRC, here on the Wiki or via email. - Mark 12:50, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Thank you 2
Thank you very much for your cooperation. I don't think your apology was really necessary, I don't think you did anything bad, really. I believe we will be able to get your concerns heard. --Ideogram 20:50, 5 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I find it interesting that you earlier admitted you had no desire to escalate the proceedings and now you seem to be interfering with my attempts to close the discussion. If you have an explanation for this change I would like to hear it.  --Ideogram 18:03, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

I am sorry that you no longer wish to cooperate with me. --Ideogram 18:30, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikitruth
Would you please restore it's talk page. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ALog&type=&user=Tawker&page=

Anomo 12:51, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Hello
Hi Zocky, how are you? I reckon you are the creator of Wikipedia Job Centre, is that right? I'd like to know how exactly I need to put a task. I wanted to put WikiProject Indonesia to the page, is that really what the page is for? Or am I wrong? Any help would be appreciated. Take care -- I   mo   eng  21:17, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * And I should put that under WikiProject Geography, I presume? Cheers -- I   mo   eng  21:25, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Hello again! I have put WikiProject Indonesia under WP Geography. You might probably want to take a look at it. What do you think if I make a shortcut for the project. Are WP:JOBCENTER and WP:JOBC good enough? WP:JB and WP:JOB have been taken by other projects. Thanks again -- I   mo   eng  09:50, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Just FYI
TawkerbotTorA isn't planned to be automated / running 24h a day, it's a limited time run script run for maybe 10 min a week under direct supervision. It's no curps :) No big deal either way, I just thought you'd like to be armed w/ all the facts :) -- Tawker 05:15, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

The unemployed
Zocky, would you mind posting a link to your Job Centre/Center project on my talk page again? We really need to get it going, as it's one of the most laudable things, if manageable.

By the way, T.S. Eliot, in Choruses from The Rock has The Unemployed lamenting:
 * "No man has hired us
 * Our deaths go unmentioned in The Times."

Geogre 15:17, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Searchbox.js
There is one open span on line 236. (I hope I counted correctly). --Eleassar my talk 15:30, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

editor
Zocky: don't know if you remember, but I suggested in #Wikipedia that your WYSIWYG editor make a lot more obvious just where the text box is when there's a new page. --Gwern (contribs) 01:55, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Two small changes on the translation tool on meta
Hello Zocky

I have made two small changes on the translation tool on meta. Details of the changes are available on m:Talk:Translations.

Best regards,

Teofilo 16:01, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Zocky's machine
Hi Zocky,

Your name came up at the last (first) Transcom meeting, and I was told subsequently that your so called Zocky's machine will be used as a translation tool, hence I searched out your userpage.

If it is correct that you have a translation tool I would like to know where it is to be found, and explanations on how it is used. I've been struggling without a translation aid and then tried OmegaT, but did not get too far with it. I am looking forward to trying out yout transmachine (?)

I've looked at m:Talk:Translations and I was quite impressed. I would like to make one suggestion, which I have already made recently, but obviously to the wrong people, about numbering translation requests. I felt that this would make it easier for translators to follow translation requests and determine what has been done and what is waiting. I am referring to the requests we are receiving through Translators-1. An urgency qualification would also be useful. I would like to know your views.

The link, about which I have only just learned already gives a list and it is nice that work in progress is indicated. I shall certainly use it in the future. LouisBB 17:09, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Nut roll
Hi, I'm an American of Eastern European descent, and started the Nut roll article. Just wondering, why did you delink the various names? Sincerely Zidel333 06:17, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Location map
Zocky kad hoću da upišem neke kordinate u šablon Location map treba da upišem u obliku npr 43.232 (SGŠ) i 23.643 (IGD). E kako ja da dobijem ovakve brojke iy obicnih koordinata. Postoji li neki program ili neki metod kako bih to mogao da iyračunam. Unapred hvala na odgovoru --Jovanvb 22:33, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Hvala Jovanvb 10:47, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

addLoadEvent
Hi, one of your user scripts uses the  function (see ). This function will be removed from MediaWiki:Common.js soon. Please modify your scripts to use  instead. —Ruud 18:27, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you
Hi, just wanted to leave you a short note to thank you for your participation on my RfA. My nomination succeeded. You didn't voice your opinion one way or another, but I wanted to say that I understand the concerns that other editors brought up in the section that you commented on. It's an area that I will work on. I hope that my future activities on Wikipedia will make you have a positive opinion of me. Thanks again. =) -- Gogo Dodo 04:39, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

hey
e Zoki, sta ima novo? Dugo nismo pricali (jos od onog na IRC), pa me interesuje cime se bavis.. sta se desava.. :)

pozdrav, --  G OD OF  J USTICE 00:58, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Re: Blocking message
Thanks a lot for telling me. I'll keep that in mind now. Cheers! -- May the Force be with you! Shr e shth91 05:11, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Fair use image in user namespace
Hello! You have used a fair use image in your user namespace (User:Zocky/Sandbox 4). Criterion 9 of the Fair use criteria states that "Fair use images may be used only in the article namespace. Used outside article space, they are not covered under the fair use doctrine." I have removed it on these grounds. Sincerely, --Oden 21:18, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

Doing something about the ridiculous date autoformatting/linking mess
Dear Zocky—you may be interested in putting your name to, or at least commenting on this new push to get the developers to create a parallel syntax that separates autoformatting and linking functions. IMV, it would go a long way towards fixing the untidy blueing of trivial chronological items, and would probably calm the nastiness between the anti- and pro-linking factions in the project. The proposal is to retain the existing function, to reduce the risk of objection from pro-linkers.Tony 15:12, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

PicturePopups.js problem
Hi Zocky, I am using your script "PicturePopups.js". Since today I get a warning message from the browser with every pageload on wikipedia. I have done some testing and I come out at your script as the source. Here a screenshot. Greetings, --Walter ''Do you have news? Report it to Wikizine'' 18:25, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
 * bah, I didn't think of that :( I added google map functionality for clicking on coordinate links, but then the same script can't work on different servers. I've reverted it for now, so that your picture popups work, and will try to figure something out for the maps ASAP. Zocky | picture popups 18:43, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

ArbCom
Perhaps you're confusing me with Raul654? I'm not a member of ArbCom. Unless, of course, I misread your note, in which case feel free to correct me. Ral315 (talk) 23:43, 13 December 2006 (UTC)


 * I did run last year; I got about 57% of the vote (According to oppose voters, I was either too young, or my responses sounded like complete BS). Ral315 (talk) 02:09, 14 December 2006 (UTC)

About Sorin Cerin
Thank you but is unacceptable what is happening with Sorin Cerin.Please see the page open by Jmabel to contrib. Thank You —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 89.114.26.107 (talk) 19:46, 19 December 2006 (UTC).

Untagged image
An image you uploaded, Image:Lenox.png, was tagged with the coatofarms copyright tag. This tag was deleted because it does not actually specify the copyright status of the image. The image may need a more accurate copyright tag, or it may need to be deleted. If the image portrays a seal or emblem, it should be tagged as seal. If you have any questions, ask them at Media copyright questions. -- 13:13, 30 December 2006 (UTC)