User talk:TedErnst

welcome ted! :-)

/notes to self

testing new tag template

Bicyclist

I love the Tag template! John Stanton 17:49, 21 Jan 2006 (EST)

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I don't know why your "FAQ" page redirects to mediawiki but I suspect some kind of built-in functionality. Let's use WikiIndex:FrequentlyAskedQuestions for the time being.

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Ted I may have to modify your Cat template because it is overwriting the bullet points see Audioscrobbler Yeah, had to include the bullet point inside the Template works good now..

I don't like the bullet points, detract from being a "natural" tag in the description area. Check out what I am trying to do at DreamHost. I DO LOVE the idea of the tags!!! MarkDilley

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Ted, I see a problem with the tagging. it shows up in the text of the page as well as in the categories. I was hoping that the header Folksonomy/Tags/Categories would just preside over the category area. now if the tags didn't show up there as well as in the wiki page, that would solve the redundancy issue I am having. Very cool start! Best, MarkDilley

Namespaces

Ted, is this what you mean about namespaces?

• http://www.wikiindex.com/Special:Allpages

It seems that MediaWiki already has namespace "pre-installed." I think I am understanding them, and liking it! I think I learned that you can make any namespace, just add a ":" - what questions do you have about namespaces, or my thoughts about them? Best, MarkDilley

Thanks for your answers

Handy guidance in a couple of directions.

I enjoyed skimming your blog too (though surprised to be redirected).

robinp 16:26, 7 Feb 2006 (EST)

WikiSym MediaWiki wiki

Ted, is http://www.wikisym.org/wiki what you where asking about? --QWERTY 01:20, 8 Feb 2006 (EST)

Mark just added it to WikiIndex on the page called WikiSym. --QWERTY 01:28, 8 Feb 2006 (EST)

images

http://static.flickr.com/19/95199503_e4c24693f6.jpg

Rather than uploading various sizes of the same image, just upload the largest size that will be needed. Fpr this example, assume the first image above is uploaded here as "TedErnst.jpg". The same results as what you've got would be obatined by typing the following:

[[Image:TedErnst.jpg]] [[Image:TedErnst.jpg|348px]] [[Image:TedErnst.jpg|193px]] [[Image:TedErnst.jpg|39px]]

Just specify the number of pixels wied you want an image to be scaled to. specify "thumb" to thumbnail it. other parameters include left, right, center, and frame. Any other text is put in as a caption. I'm going to upload a picture of myself and do all this on my page to show you what I mean. —User:Sean Fennel@ 12:31, 3 Mar 2006 (EST) EDIT: Apparently only thumbnailed images can have captions, but I think you can specify the size of thethumbnail.

recursiveness

it is not just on the Wiki Engine page, it is now on the Category_talk:All page

The recurisive problem is gone, did you do something with it, or did the database just flush it out? Soooo!! It looks great!!!! There is an issue with Lizzy still, I think in the Category:Enlish

As far as your comment: "UseModWiki isn't going to show up in the OpenEdit cat anymore, correct? Doesn't seem right." - not sure what you mean, I thought we solved that issue with a soft redirect? MarkDilley | talk

Editing the talk page

Hi Ted, this issue with my idea of "Versioning" is that it is a copy of the article page, but done in a SuggestedEdit format. That wouldn't really work on a talk page, because of all the talking going on. Anyway it is an idea that is from last month, so old :-) - I will reintroduce it later... Best, MarkDilley | talk

Reply from Andy

Hi Ted, I replied to your comment on DARwiki barnraising] Thanks. --Andy 10:04, 4 Mar 2006 (EST)

There's now a bit more information on the invitation which is going out to appropriate communities.

http://distributedresearch.net/wiki/index.php/Barn_raising#Invitation

I Hope this helps to answer your concerns to some extent. 3 days to go --Andy 05:10, 7 Mar 2006 (EST)

Deleted Redirects

Ted, fyi, I delete all redirects that I consider to be fairly useless. Since I am probably the one that named them that in the first place at SwitchWiki :-) I happy for you to undelete them if you find them of value. MarkDilley | talk

-) thanks!! MarkDilley | talk

CamelCase and ordinary spaced-out sentence case

As suggested, I've just contributed. robinp 00:36, 7 Mar 2006 (EST)

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Calming words :-) md

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Hi Ted , once again sorry for all the updates , i will try to get out of the habit .. i do tend to operate through trial and error .. and my keyboard horrible to use

i'm sorry if you / users have decided that i am a complete paranoic .. not at all the case .. i had forgetten something ! i spoke to a google guy this morning and , suddenly reminded of my 'zen and the art of trouble shooting ' , started again .. it seems there IS malware operating in the proxy to my home IP server .. doh !

'spaced out' is rather apt for the moon of course , but hopefuly you'll understand that it's more 'cyber spaced out' .. the malware has been quite confusing , i have found myself half talking to the hacker on completely unrelated message boards , such as this one , trying to get rid of them or find out who they are so i can get on with an actual launch ! it doesn't seem very sensible to run a shop from a machine that's been usurped either ..

i hope this explains an odd perception of me

kind regards

the moøn 11:24, 14 Mar 2006 (EST)

Google News Alert!

I've got the EvoWiki as a Google News Alert. It's usually about one alert a month, except for one alert that had about a dozen blog entries in it. My latest Google alert for EvoWiki (just received) was for the WikiIndex article.

BTW: Could you take a look at User:BlankVerse/Sandbox and tell me what you think. User talk:BlankVerse 10:41, 17 Mar 2006 (EST)

Wikimedia Foundation

I am very confused. I recently created Wikimedia Foundation. And then, so there would be a category for all of the Wikimedia wikis, I created Category:Wikimedia. That category looked a little too much like Category:MediaWiki, so I then tried to create Category:Wikimedia Foundation. Although it looked like I had created the category, it would then magically disappear. What I am guessing is happening is that the software has been set up so that you can't have an article and a category with the same name. User:BlankVerse | talk 16:51, 25 Mar 2006 (EST)

Thank you. I have no idea why the category wasn't created, but I tried several times.

Another issue for the Wikimedia Foundation article is that I couldn't figure out a good category to put it into under Category:Browse. User:BlankVerse | talk 23:44, 26 Mar 2006 (EST)

Domain Names

Ted, let's first figure out which official registrar your name is registered with. You can go to www.whois.sc and enter it to figure that out. Then we decide which registrar you want to be with and start the transfer process. --Raymond King | talk 03:05, 27 Mar 2006 (EST)

I am at a public computer. :-)

auto-patroll

In an earlier discussion you had asked whether it was possible to "auto-patroll" certain users, and I replied that it isn't. That has changed. Admins now have this option in their preferneces under Editing in MediaWiki 1.6. So if you really want it, we can have it. —User:Sean Fennel@ 14:09, 11 Apr 2006 (EDT)

Wikipedia entries

Hey Ted, great work on the Wikipedia language entries! MarkDilley

random musings

excellent cleanup of the sidebar! symbols are suggested edits.

monobook.js

I tried modifying mine and came to the conclusion that that feature (whatever its name is) must be turned off in the database. I'll just have to do without my rounded tabs. —User:Sean Fennel@ 11:17, 5 May 2006 (EDT)

WikiNoding

I like that simple one you made for OWD --Raymond King | talk 11:44, 9 May 2006 (EDT)

Deletion

Hey Ted, I think we can wait for deletion of pages like that. See if they develope, maybe use the deletion tag? Best, MarkDilley

MediaWiki:Name

I didn't understand those changes you made (although I'm sure there a brilliant explanation) --Raymond King | talk 17:00, 13 May 2006 (EDT)