User talk:Smiddle

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Thanks for all your great work, especially on the Wikipedia pages. I know you've been working on more than just that, and just wanted to pass on my appreciation! TedErnst | talk 13:34, 29 September 2006 (EDT)

Thanks – Smiddle / T·C·S·A 13:03, 1 October 2006 (EDT)

thanks again

Just wanted to thank you again for all your gardening around here. TedErnst | talk 10:20, 18 October 2006 (EDT)

template experiences

Hi smiddle, are you experianced with templates? Could you have a look on Template:Wiki/suggestion, I could not get it to work. My idea was to have entries in the appropriate Unknown Categories for parameters set to default or not set in the including page of an improved Wiki Template. I began working on wiki sizes and wanted to keep track with sizes missing. --Peu 16:33, 19 October 2006 (EDT)

I'll try with that strange "if" template... – Smiddle / T·C·S·A 09:26, 20 October 2006 (EDT)

Or maybe it can work without the template. – Smiddle / T·C·S·A 09:30, 20 October 2006 (EDT)

...what exactly is not working? – Smiddle / T·C·S·A 09:33, 20 October 2006 (EDT)

My idea was to elaborate an improved future-save Wiki-Template-mechanism that makes pages visible that use older versions with less parameters. (The today-challenge is to bring a template-formulation to work that, for instance, collects Wikis with no WikiNode given in a new category, maybe Category:UnknownWikiNode). (I'm not sure if it could be done with this MediaWiki-Version) --Peu 13:25, 20 October 2006 (EDT)

"If" template to the rescue. I hope it doesn't mess up like it did before. – Smiddle / T·C·S·A 15:20, 20 October 2006 (EDT)

hey, looks good, look at this, we have to add only the statistics url and think (a little) about layout changing... --Peu

wat are you doing?

You know that the includeonly section is responsible for listing in unk-cats [1]? the pipe "|" means here default parameters, not cat order. --Peu 04:09, 21 October 2006 (EDT)

Oops. – Smiddle / T·C·S·A 04:10, 21 October 2006 (EDT)

What about wiki_URL

It's crazy but ther seem to be WikiPages without URL. and,

please, could you explain how If works. (so long I have to "family" now) --Peu 04:17, 21 October 2006 (EDT)

Let's see... Category:UnknownWikiURL. But it only works if wiki_URL is not entered. If 'YourWikiHttp' or 'No' is entered, they'll not be added to the category. Hope there's a conclusion. – Smiddle / T·C·S·A 04:22, 21 October 2006 (EDT)

Oh, there is another mistake

You placed the unk-cats directly in the tamplate, thet causes the template page itself listed in unknowns. I did it now by including the "includeonly" tagging into the if-space and it works. If we could bring the standard wiki property lines into a generic fashion (maybe with your "If") then we can remove the "includeonly" section on top of the tamplate. --Peu 04:35, 21 October 2006 (EDT)

a last one

What do you think about it ([[2]])? --Peu 04:54, 21 October 2006 (EDT)

MyTimezone

Hi smiddle, I have added a Template:TimezoneMiddleEurope to use for our timezone (i it's the same). If we use it, we cann do the formatting in one style and switch DST with one edit. --Peu 07:04, 22 October 2006 (EDT)

would you, please, have a look on Category talk:Timezone too --Peu 14:42, 23 October 2006 (EDT)

re: time zone preferences (:uff, was it difficult to detect the autor of this contrib:) you should update your Special:Preferences fourth tab "date & time" (?: mine is german) --Peu 15:41, 23 October 2006 (EDT)

Yeah, I accidently glided the tilde button one time too much. Now it works. – Smiddle / T·C·S·A 15:45, 23 October 2006 (EDT)

idea about time zone names?

I named the first middle european (time zone plus dst-convention) but what are the names of others. I consulted Wikipedia and so on, but I cannot find names of (time zones + conventions), I find only active time names...I'm not sure...(for instance MEZ (CET) is used to name both time zone and time in winter) can you help me? --Peu 15:50, 23 October 2006 (EDT)

Maybe they can be named after some big city (e.g Moscow Time) ... or where the time zone is (e.g. Middle Australian Time). I can't help you any further than that, I think. – Smiddle / T·C·S·A 15:53, 23 October 2006 (EDT)

re: size categories

size cats were in former times 10, 100, 1000 and so on, I added the 2*10^e amd 5*10^e type size cats, for justice, but I think it would be not so helpful to add all n*10^e categories. see also Wikipedia:Benford's law --Peu 16:05, 23 October 2006 (EDT)

I know. That's the reason I removed MoreThan300. – Smiddle / T·C·@ 16:09, 23 October 2006 (EDT)

wiki people language

Hope you are not sour about the recategorization of wiki people languages. ---Peu 18:24, 23 October 2006 (EDT)

What new recategorization? – Smiddle / T·C·@ 10:18, 24 October 2006 (EDT)

these [3] for the three languages, should we add french too? --Peu 13:45, 24 October 2006 (EDT)

I think so. French is a big language. I'm not a very good French speaker. Iä'll do my best translating. – Smiddle / T·C·@ 14:03, 24 October 2006 (EDT)

visual wiki index

Hi Smiddle, please would you have a look on this: Proposal:Visual WikiIndex --Peu | talk 17:27, 24 October 2006 (EDT)

where?

This[4] was a really good idea, thanks! --Peu | talk 18:06, 25 October 2006 (EDT)

Yes, we gotta help everybody. – Smiddle / T·C·@ 09:31, 26 October 2006 (EDT)

Template:About

What is the purpose of this template? I think the caption "Author" is misleading, the parameter name founder seems better, but...what was your intention? --Peu | talk 09:52, 27 October 2006 (EDT)

Actually... I don't know. I was thinking of linking to an article about the site creator and one about the page itself. – Smiddle / T·C·@ 12:20, 27 October 2006 (EDT)

I would say the wiki founder(s) could be interesting (as is the wiki age), but the "About" should be included in a wiki node page. --Peu | talk 12:49, 27 October 2006 (EDT)

Interwiki Table

Go here to see the interwiki list, this list is editable, contact me if you want to be able to do that. John 15:20, 29 October 2006 (EST)

Yes. I know a link that'd be useful. A huge wiki. – Smiddle / T·C·@ 17:43, 29 October 2006 (EST)

interwiki link

what is the benefit of interwiki link [5]? --Peu | talk 02:45, 30 October 2006 (EST)

Some of the wikis' got interwiki links from here. We could display them there so that users know they can interlink there. If you want an interwiki link, contact me or John. (I do not know if all wikis are acceptable, but most probably are)– Smiddle / T·C·@ 02:52, 30 October 2006 (EST)

re [6] --Peu | talk 03:34, 30 October 2006 (EST)

Ns link template

I'm going to delete that because using them requires more typing than using the pipe trick. — User:Sean Fennel@ 01:03, 19 November 2006 (EST)

For short words maybe. The reason I created it was that I think it's annoying writing the same thing two times. But you can delete it. It's not one of my better works here. – Smiddle / T·C·@ 04:21, 19 November 2006 (EST)

It can be undeleted if necessary. Coming from Wikipedia I'm more in the mindset of thinking about server space and bandwidth, but that doesn't seem to be a problem here. — User:Sean Fennel@ 04:57, 19 November 2006 (EST)

vandal reverts

Thanks!

Yeah. I had nothing to do so I chcked the RC list and I saw an active contributor—or not. It was a vandal, sadly. – Smiddle / T·C·@ 08:54, 20 November 2006 (EST)

Those spammers are most likely bots, so I don't think warning them will do any good. — User:Sean Fennel@ 03:36, 24 November 2006 (EST)

you're welcome!

TedErnst | talk 10:57, 25 November 2006 (EST)