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:You are most welcome for the plug. I have seen the RandomImage tool used on other wikis – but the effect on the front page of your wiki is extremely effective. Your eco-village looks amazing – I wish I could join you all!! I so miss Canada. :-/ [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • <sub>[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]] / [[WikiIndex:Bureaucrats|'Crat]]</sub> • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 09:48, 4 October 2017 (PDT) | :You are most welcome for the plug. I have seen the RandomImage tool used on other wikis – but the effect on the front page of your wiki is extremely effective. Your eco-village looks amazing – I wish I could join you all!! I so miss Canada. :-/ [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • <sub>[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]] / [[WikiIndex:Bureaucrats|'Crat]]</sub> • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 09:48, 4 October 2017 (PDT) | ||
== Removing Arabic == | ==Removing Arabic== | ||
Was [http://wikiindex.org/index.php?title=Welcome&diff=0&oldid=197702 this] an accident? Why did you remove the welcome message for Arabic? [[User:Koavf|Koavf]] ([[User talk:Koavf|talk]]) 18:50, 15 November 2017 (PST) | |||
:Not an accident. I removed the Arabic script because its presence was causing issues when editing – it was trying to force right-to-left reading – which is fine in an all-arabic script page, but is unacceptable on pages of overwhelming roman script language. Its presence was, when editing, incorrectly deleting unintended text. Thankfully, I nearly always preview before saving, and noticed its effects. But it took me about 8 previews before I realised (a) the pattern of effect, and then (b) the cause. As soon as I deleted the Arabic script (and saved it), the editing problem vanished. | |||
:I am personally not comfortable with the excessive proliferation of languages here on WikiIndex – for a number of issues, and especially so with the actual method we are using. We should go back to basics, and let the long-established and well-proven methods carry out translation – online translation services from the likes of Google and Bing work fantastic, and there are other services such as [[translatewiki.net]] for when permanent translations are required. Best. [[User:Hoof Hearted|Sean, aka <small>Hoof Hearted</small>]] • <sub>[[:Category:Active administrators of this wiki|Admin]] / [[WikiIndex:Bureaucrats|'Crat]]</sub> • <small>[[User talk:Hoof Hearted|talk2HH]]</small> 11:21, 17 November 2017 (PST) | |||