User talk:TedErnst

welcome ted! :-)

/notes to self

testing templates

This test is AFU at the moment. Sorry for the mess. TedErnst 18:46, 18 Jan 2006 (EST) /templatetest /articlewithtemplatetest

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

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Questions Answered

• from over at Community talk - "Community talk is the article descibing the page (and maybe decisions?), talk is where the action happens. Me thinks :-)" MarkDilley

• Documented! lol. that is something we are woefully behind on. I checked to see how long this project has been going. We popluated this wiki 6 days ago, it is so new. Any help you can give with documentation is great. I am trying to do as much as possible while still getting the wiki ready for official launch! ;-) Thanks, MarkDilley

• • can we add you to the agreement process, or would you rather not?MarkDilley

testing new signature

Here it is. TedErnst | talk 13:53, 24 Jan 2006 (EST)

Ted!! U R Awesome! Good rubs. :-) testing, testing! MarkDilley | talk

Red Link

I removed that login. I'll work under the Sysop login when I need to. My role was to build & format the data and bring up the site and that job is done. I won't be contributing much in the way of content so I thought it best to step out of the way and let you guys do your thing. John

redirected home page back to wiki index vs. comm portal

Ted, sorry, that was me (Ray) that forgot to sign in.

tagging

check out Add a Wiki and How do tags work. I jiggered it a bit, let me know what u think, thx --Ray 02:45, 27 Jan 2006 (EST)

signature test

neat! thanks --Raymond King | talk 11:54, 27 Jan 2006 (EST)

tags

Ted, I've got a little problem with the "tag" and "category" template. It's a trailing space issue -- when you use the template within a body of text, it somehow adds a trailing space inside the template results and worse, requires that you don't add a trailing space afterwards, else it messes up the output. Any ideas?

ok thanks, I'll ping John too. I think it works well enough to use it this way, but it's not perfect unfortunately.

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)

Cudos

• nice minor rework of WikiIndex top box!
• thinking cudos category could be place on users talk page as a semi permanent place to say thanks.. .hmmm the idea Talk:CudosAtWikiIndex or something to discuss the idea. MarkDilley | talk

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

edit mode

just finished 5 18 hour days... more time here. 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

Wow!!

Great work Ted!!

Reply from Andy

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