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:I'll be honest with you and say that most of my motivation to help here has been taken away by Chaos' total [[WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT]] approach to help, criticism and warnings he's been given, even down to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Survivor:_Nicaragua&diff=prev&oldid=385259693 adding a new link to pifeedback.com] after being told he is likely to be blocked for that behaviour. I also notice that your first edit after posting here was to the page in his userspace where he posts pifeedback.com figures. Basically, the way to avoid any problems is to not behave in ways that you know are problematic. It won't be my decision in any way, but I imagine that those who judge the situation may well be inclined to give [[WP:LITTLEBROTHER]] some consideration. If you need any more help, then perhaps the [[WP:HELPDESK]] might have some advice for you for general questions like blocking policy. I will, however, add my welcome to Wikipedia, and a hope that you can put aside the history here and become a valuable member of the community. If you need any help concerning that, rather than the disappointing pifeedback saga, then my talk page is, as it generally always has been, an open house where you don't need to bring your own beer. Good luck. [[User:Begoon|<font face="Arial" color="#0645AD">'''Begoon'''</font>]]•[[User Talk:Begoon|<font style="color:#808080;font-weight:bold;">talk</font>]] 03:36, 18 September 2010 (UTC) |
:I'll be honest with you and say that most of my motivation to help here has been taken away by Chaos' total [[WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT]] approach to help, criticism and warnings he's been given, even down to [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Survivor:_Nicaragua&diff=prev&oldid=385259693 adding a new link to pifeedback.com] after being told he is likely to be blocked for that behaviour. I also notice that your first edit after posting here was to the page in his userspace where he posts pifeedback.com figures. Basically, the way to avoid any problems is to not behave in ways that you know are problematic. It won't be my decision in any way, but I imagine that those who judge the situation may well be inclined to give [[WP:LITTLEBROTHER]] some consideration. If you need any more help, then perhaps the [[WP:HELPDESK]] might have some advice for you for general questions like blocking policy. I will, however, add my welcome to Wikipedia, and a hope that you can put aside the history here and become a valuable member of the community. If you need any help concerning that, rather than the disappointing pifeedback saga, then my talk page is, as it generally always has been, an open house where you don't need to bring your own beer. Good luck. [[User:Begoon|<font face="Arial" color="#0645AD">'''Begoon'''</font>]]•[[User Talk:Begoon|<font style="color:#808080;font-weight:bold;">talk</font>]] 03:36, 18 September 2010 (UTC) |
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::Thanks for your warm welcome here. I'll take your warnings and use my privilages wisely. Regarding pifeedback, why would he get banned for adding that? To me, the edit seemed like a normal, helpful edit. ...You don't need to answer that if it continues anything, though. Yes, basically, what I am trying to do is use his pages on his userspace and add some to my watchlist. Though the CW edit was from his watchlist... Thanks again for your help.[[User:Pinknp|Pinknp]] ([[User talk:Pinknp|talk]]) 23:13, 19 September 2010 (UTC) |
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Scouting Images
Thank you so much for taking these old requests on, I really appreciate it! --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 14:25, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
I can't believe I forgot to ask you to do these
It's not like I live here or something...
--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 03:30, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
- I need the text characters and a suitable font clue for [1] and [2]. Begoon•talk 00:39, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- Text is そなえよつねに in the image description page, there are very few hiragana fonts, so your choices will be very similar.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:15, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
Chad
Please combine File:Fédération du Scoutisme Tchadien purple.png and File:Fédération du Scoutisme Tchadien.png, thank you!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 18:52, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
- Any better examples of the tree/mushroom cloud/candy floss/steam locomotive hanging from parachute motif, and the spears (I think...) would be most helpful. Begoon•talk 00:42, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- I will search. It's an acacia tree.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:16, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- That's a bit of a blow, actually - I was looking forward to doing The Flying Scotsman parachuting into the Normandy beaches under light infantry cover. Somehow an acacia tree won't be quite the same. Are you sure? It certainly looks like a parachuting loco on the cloth badge ... Begoon•talk 05:35, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- I will search. It's an acacia tree.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:16, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- Sadly, I'm sure. All the images I could find on Google were ripped from Wiki. The only different one is http://www.worldbadger.com/image.asp?name=64868 .--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 12:01, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- Fair enough. I won't mention that one looks like a nun skipping through a field waving a giant concertina over her head then, otherwise you'll make me do a full Rorschach test I expect. And what do badgers have to do with it, anyway? Better off building dams than having opinions on graphics, probably... Begoon•talk 13:35, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- "How do you know she's a witch?" "Well, she looks like one..."--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 16:10, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- And wait, I thought The Flying Scotsman was the train or the guy from Chariots of Fire... ah, well, we Americans are doomed to be nekulturnyi. I did go to a Burns Night supper this year, that was much fun. Whisky is friendly!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 16:14, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- Just for giggles, make it a parachute anyway. I bet it stays for years! LOL--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 16:15, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
File:Council of Scout Associations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.png
When you get a chance, they finally went from greyscale to two-tone green. Hope your leg is better and all is well with you!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 17:34, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
- Except that http://www.sioz.ba/ isn't two-tone green, it's one light green (just happens to be on a dark green background - see http://www.sioz.ba/prva.html for how it looks on a different background - which, of course leads nicely onto the fact that it's a totally different fleur to the png, and should probably include the text and circle for completeness? Begoon•talk 00:54, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- Sounds good.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:16, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
- I want to swap that one out for the time being, please do File:Savjet izviđačkih organizacija u Bosni i Hercegovini.png instead.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 11:39, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
File:Scout Association of the People's Republic of China.png
This one is going to be a sticky topic very shortly. Sorry it's boring.--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 16:36, 3 September 2010 (UTC)
Images still to do
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File:Turks and Caicos Branch of The Scout Association.svg
File:Montserrat Branch of The Scout Association.svg
File:Saint Kitts and Nevis Branch of The Scout Association.svg
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Lab
Hello, Begoon. I'm Wanwa from Russian Graphic lab. We have serious problems with graphists. Everyone rests. But we have nearly 15 images to vectorize it. So, you are dearly invited to our project. If you agree, please tell me. I'll show you those images and translate them in English. If you don't agree, please tell me, who can fulfilled this task. Yours, Wanwa (talk) 07:56, 20 August 2010 (UTC). Oh, sorry about mistakes in the text.
Hello - I can't promise anything - but if you can show me where the images are, I'll take a look, and let you know what I think. Begoontalk 10:11, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
To vectorize (into SVG). This is a list of images:
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Done- using this file
Wanwa (talk) 19:41, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
Well, on the whole, they are really quite intricate designs, and for at least the first 3 the originals are not very good to work from. I'll search for some better originals first, and see where we go from there. Begoontalk 00:44, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
Oh, thanks a million! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wanwa (talk • contribs) 09:54, 21 August 2010 (UTC)
- File:Coat of Arms of Khanty-Mansia.svg is Done- using http://www2.admhmao.ru/obsved/simvol/gerb.jpg as a guide Begoontalk 06:11, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
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Thank you for accepting to carry out the GA review. We have noted the points on your list and will address them accordingly as quickly as possible. Regards, --Kudpung (talk) 07:26, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
Thank you also for your exceptionally quick and thorough review and for passing the article :) Kindest regards, --Kudpung (talk) 12:08, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
- You are very welcome. I enjoyed it, because it is a good article, and I hope I was able to contribute a little along the way. Begoon•talk 12:43, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
good grief.
Sorry about all that uploading, I shouldn't be editing (images) when sick obviously. :P sonia♫ 08:26, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
- It just popped up on my watchlist and I could see what you'd done. I often forget to convert type to paths. If you've got effects such as curves, or use a font not available, the wikipedia rsvg library often spews on it like that. I always use paths for big display fonts like that. Great job though - looks cool... Hope you feel better - just got over flu myself, no good. Begoon•talk 08:31, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
Hi Begoon. I wonder if when you have a moment, you could do me a small quick favour, and knock out the unsightly black bkgnd I left around File:Teignmouth_school_logo.jpg when I lifted it from their website? Cheers, --Kudpung (talk) 21:32, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
- I redrew it instead:File:Teignmouth_school_logo.svg - that bitmap was very low quality, and would have looked even worse trying to remove a dark blue background without leaving a halo around the ill defined border. Begoon•talk 02:25, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
Wren School
Hi Begoon. File:Wren_school_crest.jpg is another one you could tweak if you have time. I think just knocking out the red background would do the trick. No hurry though.--Kudpung (talk) 07:40, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
- Done as Wrenn school crest.svg Begoon•talk 09:57, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
Thanks! I should be testing in multiple browsers, but I'm lazy and don't (I used to have virtualbox and VMWare images for major OSs, but had to sacrifice that when a new project started and I needed all the disk space I had...)
Just one problem: in Chrome (my current default browser) I'm seeing a wide gap now between the infobox and the content - is that just me? (If so, I can probably live with it - I only use my userpage to copy-and-paste stuff from). TFOWR 11:49, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
- I just noticed that. You might have to bugger about with all the em widths inside the "left" div. I'll have a quick play. Begoon•talk 11:52, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
- Cool, thanks! The latest version looks much better - I get a slight overlap, but I browse zoomed-in slightly. Restoring the default zooming makes things look perfect. I suppose percentages instead of ems is out of the question? TFOWR 12:19, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
- That looks pretty damn near perfect - I'd need to compare it with the pre-fix version to spot the difference (assuming this one...) Thanks again! TFOWR 13:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
- Yeah - there was still one niggle in IE where the table next to the cat would "underflow" behind him if you went to a small window - but that's fixed by giving {{col-begin}} a fixed pixel width. I write web pages for a living, but cramming this stuff into wiki format can still be a challenge, because you need to take account of the surrounding wiki divs, and the html in the templates, some of which you have no control over... plus, if I'd been thinking, I'd have used {{col-begin}} from the start, instead of letting my native html coding instinct take over and trying to do it all with divs - note to self - always try to use wikicode first if it exists Begoon•talk 14:06, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
- My exposure to raw HTML is pretty limited - I've been a software developer in the past (I'm more of a Jack-of-all-trades these days) but even then I'd be handed ready-made HTML rather than having to craft it myself - my role would be "make code that spits out this bit of HTML here, does some dynamic magic, then spit out another bit of HTML" - I'm sure you know what I mean, except I was fairly isolated from the web people. Anyway, what prompted this unsolicited kindness?! I'm extremely grateful, by the way - at the back of my mind has always been a nagging doubt that I want to be accessible, but am too lazy to do much about it ;-) TFOWR 16:01, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
- Nothing prompted it except a watchlist comment something like "bugger it doesn't work" popped up, so I looked out of interest, and thought - he just needs columns and floats. I know how annoying it can be when you want to do something like the collapse you were trying to do and it just shoots stuff around everywhere, so I thought I'd give it 10 minutes. Ok, ended up a little more, but you'll see all that on my detailed invoice... (which strangely seems to have gone through at my $0 per hour rate) Seriously, the user page layout is good, and it seemed a shame if you couldn't do what you wanted to. Anyway, it's good to help, there's an enzyme involved, I think - I wish sometimes it was more universal and potent. Begoon•talk 16:28, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
- Well, thanks again - it restores my faith in human nature. Just for that, I'll pay double ;-) TFOWR 16:36, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
- Nothing prompted it except a watchlist comment something like "bugger it doesn't work" popped up, so I looked out of interest, and thought - he just needs columns and floats. I know how annoying it can be when you want to do something like the collapse you were trying to do and it just shoots stuff around everywhere, so I thought I'd give it 10 minutes. Ok, ended up a little more, but you'll see all that on my detailed invoice... (which strangely seems to have gone through at my $0 per hour rate) Seriously, the user page layout is good, and it seemed a shame if you couldn't do what you wanted to. Anyway, it's good to help, there's an enzyme involved, I think - I wish sometimes it was more universal and potent. Begoon•talk 16:28, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
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For unsolicited but very, very welcome improvements to my userpage, specifically making it accessible to multiple web browsers while maintaining the original design. For the record, this was prompted by Begoon's diligence in spotting an off-the-cuff edit summary and responding with hard-graft and professionalism. TFOWR 08:52, 10 September 2010 (UTC) |
Ah, the cheque has arrived... (...lol). Thank you - much appreciated. I even have a page to put these on, so I can copy it there now. Begoon•talk 09:05, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
SVG trace
Question for you at User_talk:Fastily#Image fogged. ~Amatulić (talk) 21:11, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
RfA thanks spam
svg question
When I try to save svgs, my computer wants to turn them into pngs. What am I doing wrong?--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 14:39, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
- You're saving the png that the Wikimedia rendering engine rsvg generates from the svg. It always sends png files to browsers, because some browsers can't render svg images. Instead, do it like this.
- From the image description page, click the main thumbnail at top left, to take you to the "white screen" with just a preview.
- Then right click, save as / save image as*, on the image there. *wording depends on browser
- and as a ps - normal service will be resumed on scout images in a week or so, when I get some other stuff and a lot of work backlogged out of the way, in case you felt ignored... Begoon•talk 14:59, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
- Not at all, you're a busy man and a professional at this, I am lucky to have your help! And I've been busy, today (until 22 minutes ago) was my 40th birthday, I was threatened by my job with transfer-or-700-bucks-paycut, and have essentially had three birthday parties in as many days, so I haven't been able to worry about it. My edits have been sparse for a while, I wonder what the vandals and the stalkers are doing...--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 15:25, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
- Update-hey, that worked!--Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 17:23, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Yes - you're not the first person to be confused by that, and you won't be the last. One day when I'm bored I should suggest adding a "download this file as svg" (or jpg, or whatever it is) link to the file description page, under the thumbnail. Begoon•talk 17:29, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
Actually, I did it now, because one never comes back and does these things. https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25148 refers. Begoon•talk 17:47, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
SVG Rendering Question
Hi, apologies for contacting out of the blue - you're very active on the SVG pages, so I thought you might be the person to ask!
A couple of days ago, Chamberlain2007 uploaded an SVG for the Top 4 on the graphics requests page (Cloverdale_Municipal_Airport_diagram.svg). I noticed that it still had all the Inkscape tags, and the text hadn't been converted to paths so was sometimes rendering incorrectly (as shown in the original thumbnail). I corrected this and uploaded a new version. However.... Wikipedia seems to have created correctly rendered PNGs at all sizes other than the main page 348px image, which seems not to have updated from the original upload rendering.
This is quite perplexing! Any ideas? Thanks, Serenthia 09:07, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
- Almost certainly a problem with the thumbnail not being updated in the cache. To force the file to be recognised as different, I added a pixel to each dimension and re-uploaded it - seems ok now. Begoon•talk 09:44, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
- Fantastic - thanks a lot :o) Serenthia 10:28, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thanks :):)
Well, Begoon, this is a personal note of thanks for the lovely support vote you placed in my RfA. Each vote mattered :) Just spluttered home :) My thanks to you for leaving the vote, and most importantly the comments :) Wishes Wifione ....... Leave a message 19:14, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
ChaosMaster16
Hello Begoon. I am ChaosMaster16's sister in real life. I edited from his account a few times, and finally decided to get my own. When I told him, though, his concern was about banning, since we share an ip address. Is there anyway that if he gets banned, I do not, or vice versa? Pinknp (talk) 23:59, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
- I'll be honest with you and say that most of my motivation to help here has been taken away by Chaos' total WP:IDIDNTHEARTHAT approach to help, criticism and warnings he's been given, even down to adding a new link to pifeedback.com after being told he is likely to be blocked for that behaviour. I also notice that your first edit after posting here was to the page in his userspace where he posts pifeedback.com figures. Basically, the way to avoid any problems is to not behave in ways that you know are problematic. It won't be my decision in any way, but I imagine that those who judge the situation may well be inclined to give WP:LITTLEBROTHER some consideration. If you need any more help, then perhaps the WP:HELPDESK might have some advice for you for general questions like blocking policy. I will, however, add my welcome to Wikipedia, and a hope that you can put aside the history here and become a valuable member of the community. If you need any help concerning that, rather than the disappointing pifeedback saga, then my talk page is, as it generally always has been, an open house where you don't need to bring your own beer. Good luck. Begoon•talk 03:36, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for your warm welcome here. I'll take your warnings and use my privilages wisely. Regarding pifeedback, why would he get banned for adding that? To me, the edit seemed like a normal, helpful edit. ...You don't need to answer that if it continues anything, though. Yes, basically, what I am trying to do is use his pages on his userspace and add some to my watchlist. Though the CW edit was from his watchlist... Thanks again for your help.Pinknp (talk) 23:13, 19 September 2010 (UTC)