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Oh, one other problem: Unicode works great, but the {{tl|IPA}} template already has a move-over popup saying it's IPA, and this negates the intended mouseover. Any idea how to prevent that? |
Oh, one other problem: Unicode works great, but the {{tl|IPA}} template already has a move-over popup saying it's IPA, and this negates the intended mouseover. Any idea how to prevent that? |
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I really think you ought to post diffs demonstrating what's problematic about Mathsci's behavior in the AN/I thread. Most people's default assumption there seems to be that his behavior is fine, so they'll need to see specific evidence of what's wrong with it before they'll believe otherwise. --[[User:Captain Occam|Captain Occam]] ([[User talk:Captain Occam|talk]]) 00:57, 28 April 2010 (UTC) |
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proposal - need collab
I've invited a number of people to join at this thread, so thank you for looking. I'd like to develop something similar to wp:AWB, except PHP based (frankly, I'm starting this because I'm annoyed that there's no version of AWB that works on Macs). My idea is to create a separate user (much like a bot-account): people can navigate to that user's page, where they will find an assortment of HTML forms where they can perform AWB-like functions straight through wikipedia's servers. My problem is the learning curve - the PHP coding is not beyond me technically, but the project is too large for me to handle on my own, given my current informational deficit. I've contacted you (as a group) because you have worked on or developed PHP bot code, and will probably be much more 'up' on this problem than I am. what I need to know is the following:
- Which of the various available bot frameworks is best suited to this task?
- How difficult do you think this project will actually be?
- What's the best approach (In your view) to achieving this?
- What considerations am I missing? I'm already concerned about keeping this from turning into a vandalism tool, for instance, and about server resources (it would probably be best to have a system of queueing requests, which would help with both problems).
I'd also like to know if any of you are interested in collaborating on this project - that would make things a hell of a lot easier for me, and make development much faster. Please let me know. --Ludwigs2 06:09, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
Making the box around a self-contained suggested change
Sorry to bother, but I just added a new proposal for R&I here [1]. When you did this as mediator, you had a cool way of putting the proposal in a special box. I looked at the archives for the mediation, but couldn't figure out how you did it. Any suggestions? David.Kane (talk) 21:18, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
- I used {{quote box}}. I modified it in talk - take a look at what I did. --Ludwigs2 21:30, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks! David.Kane (talk) 00:15, 16 April 2010 (UTC)
Reverting of race and intelligence to pre-mediation version
I’d predicted that this would happen, didn’t I?
The discussion about it is here. Not that I really expect this change to last, but I figured you might have something to say about the idea of discarding the three months of work you put into this article. --Captain Occam (talk) 07:54, 21 April 2010 (UTC)
help w template
Hi Ludwigs,
I'm failing miserably w a simple modification of a template. It's {{Abbr}}, where I want to add the option of formatting the text, for when using it as a pop-up gloss for poorly supported fonts. I'd like to add a third parameter switch, which will format the param. 1 text with {{unicode}} or {{IPA}}, and eventually other formats (Arabic, Indic, etc). (Actually, I'd like to have the 1st parameter be the switch if there are three, or revert to the existing code if there are two.) However, I can't figure out how to add the {{...| of the format code without it either messing up the parsing of the switch and if statement, or being displayed as simple text. Can you help? kwami (talk) 15:57, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
- the code needs to look something like this:
<abbr title="{{#tag:nowiki|{{{2|}}}}}">{{#switch: {{{3|}}} | unicode = {{ unicode |{{{1|}}}}} | ipa = {{ IPA |{{{1|}}}}} | {{{1|}}} }}</abbr>
- the second bit (about switching parameters around) is
impossiblea royal pain if you're simply trying to expand this template - there's no way for the template to distinguish between the old use of parameter 1 and the new use. You could do it without too much trouble if you wanted to create a new template, and forward this template through with the parameters repositioned - is it worth the effort, though? --Ludwigs2 18:46, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
I was thinking of an #if{{{3}}} function. But I notice that if I add a third parameter to the existing template: it's simply ignored: {{Abbr|aoeu|snth|k}} = aoeu. Therefore I should be able to simply expand the existing template, as long as I don't mind having to put the switch is position 3.
The reason I wanted it in position 1 was because that would make it easier to update articles with 'replace all', but I can just use AWB.
Thanks for the help! kwami (talk) 19:55, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
Oh, one other problem: Unicode works great, but the {{IPA}} template already has a move-over popup saying it's IPA, and this negates the intended mouseover. Any idea how to prevent that?
Mathsci
I really think you ought to post diffs demonstrating what's problematic about Mathsci's behavior in the AN/I thread. Most people's default assumption there seems to be that his behavior is fine, so they'll need to see specific evidence of what's wrong with it before they'll believe otherwise. --Captain Occam (talk) 00:57, 28 April 2010 (UTC)