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I restored alt text that you removed on the prior edit. It see that the alt text feature may no longer be working, which might be behind the automated removal, but in that case the feature description should be changed as well. Can you clarify what is happening here? — Quondum 05:47, 6 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for catching that mistake. I have checked and the alt text is indeed functional and working. I assumed this not to be the case because it was not mentioned in the other references that I had consulted. Cacycle (talk) 11:29, 6 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Cool. The "feature" that I had in mind was that when the cursor hovered over the image, the alt text would pop up, but on trying to trace it, it seems this must have been a "bug" in my memory (confusion with wikilinks or somesuchlike), and the only functionality mentioned at WP:ALT seems to be working fine. — Quondum 12:29, 6 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
That would be title and is actually also supported. Cacycle (talk) 13:33, 6 January 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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I teach high school chemistry.I want to use your structural formulas in my class computer lessons. I copy, but when I paste into a program, it has a black background.What am I doing wrong?
Thank you,
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MWeber32schools.nyc.gov — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.155.192.6 (talk) 14:26, 5 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Your program probably ignores the transparency. In IrfanView go to Menu->Image->Palette and set the background color to white. Good luck, Cacycle (talk) 14:32, 5 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
New relatively high level wikEd bug
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That consists of: I'm not sure exactly what you changed, but all of a sudden, wikEd is replacing closing comment tags (-->) with whatever the previous character in the comment string is. Example:
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is getting changed to
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Thanks, have reverted to last stable for now (0.9.113). Please update with Shift-Reload. Cacycle (talk) 19:48, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Fixed in 0.9.114c (April 21, 2013), please update with Shift-Reload. Cacycle (talk) 21:14, 21 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Please discuss wikEd problems on the wikEd talk page. Also, please provide more details there. Thanks, Cacycle (talk) 18:15, 26 April 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Hi, I'm in love with wikEd, so I was woundering, where did you learn to code? Original Authority (talk) 22:05, 15 August 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Learning by doing :-) Programming is actually a hobby of mine since I was a teenager. Cacycle (talk) 20:15, 10 September 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for everything
Thank you for creating helpful editing tools like wikEd and wikEdDiff. They seriously make my life so much easier, and they integrate so well with the editing interface that I honestly sometimes forget they're not a default part of the Wikimedia software. I have an alt account that I use both for editing from public computers and for editing from my Kindle Fire (which sadly, does not like to play with WikEd) and smartphone. Whenever I log into that account, I'm always a little confused about why half my editing interface is gone until I remember that wikEd is "just" an add-on. Thank you for the improvements you have made to my editing. Happy editing, — Preceding signed comment added by Cymru.lass (talk • contribs) 16:42, 7 September 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Thanks for these nice compliments! Unfortunately, I did not have much time to work on wikEd recently, but that might change in the future... Cacycle (talk) 20:14, 10 September 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Help needed with Anti-Vandal Tool
Hello, I read you are the person to ask for help about this tool. I'm trying to copy it into the spanish wikipedia. I can't get it to fully work. Could you help me with this? Thanks --Facu89 (talk) 04:56, 10 September 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi Facu89, Lupin's Anti-Vandal Tool (User:Lupin/recent2.js) is is a really old tool that has not been actively maintained for several years. I am not even sure if it is still working on the English Wikipedia. Feel free to ask specific questions, but in general, I think there are much better (and maintained!) tools available nowadays. Sorry, Cacycle (talk) 20:11, 10 September 2013 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I am offering a prize for a fix to WikEd. Have posted the issue here [2]. The problem occur with google chrome latest version. Unable to copy and paste colors across with Firefox. Let me know if you are interested. Else will offer to a wider community. Great program by the way. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 11:58, 30 January 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I will look into this, please give me some time. Cacycle (talk) 15:07, 30 January 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Great thanks. Would also love to see the issue with the ref not added in the right spot when one uses the ref toolbar. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 15:23, 30 January 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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The structure you posted, doesnt have a formal charge of 0. There is another possible way to draw the molecular structure of that substance, (lone pair up O, double bond beside C3) which will make the Formal charge =0, this way it will be more correct than your earlier one. Please change it. Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.163.107.39 (talk) 11:14, 22 March 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Are you talking about File:Propionic_acid_chemical_structure.png? What is "LDS"? That structure actually does have a formal charge of 0. Also, the structure does not show any lone pairs. C3 is the terminal carbon and does not have any double bonds. I am really confused, please could you give me more details so that I can address your concerns? Thanks, Cacycle (talk) 13:18, 22 March 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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It took some time for me to notice your request but I'm pleased to announce that I've just updated Polish translation of wikiEd. Cheers, konrad (talk) 14:26, 21 June 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Hi Jen, the structure was taken from the patent US20100323453 where it is referred to as Dye No. 35 and ET-27. The compound was identified by comparison of the gel image in Fig. 12 with the identical image in this product information. Cacycle (talk) 01:35, 2 October 2014 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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It is 2016, and the default diff compare screen that is built in in MediaWiki still sucks. wikEdDiff is a huge improvement.
The wikEdDiff page contains the following sentence:
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The Community Tech team claims to be working on an improved diff compare screen.
Can you please contact them and explain to them how you have fixed this problem? Thanks in advance, The Quixotic Potato (talk) 04:07, 21 February 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Hey there, I'm not sure if we've had this conversation before on IRC, or if that was with someone else, but if we did discuss this already, I forgot what the outcome was. I just wanted to point out that I've made a script that makes the Regex Typo Fixing skip all elements that are not plain text, which contain possible intentional "typos", namely those described on WP:AWB/T#AutoWikiBrowser (AWB). It's a very lightweight script (or at least as lightweight as I could imagine such a script ever being; probably just as heavy as the script you're using right now), so performance should not be an issue. It's also designed to be used in scripts, as it can be used to execute a typo fix by simply running RETF.replace(text) for any text you want.
I hope this helps improve the typo fixing of wikEd. Joeytje50 (talk) 05:16, 14 November 2016 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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How do i make the keyboard shortcuts work? I want to save pages when i use wiked! Thank you so much! I love your gadget so much! I created a google chrome question about this and made some edits to improve your pages. Imaginelenin (talk) 05:25, 19 December 2017 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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Nice work on drawing cannabinoid skeletons. However, I think there's a room for an improvement regarding to a consistency. E.g. File:CBC-type cyclization of cannabinoids.png. One might assume that the skeletons in the table in Cannabinoid#Phytocannabinoids are same original orientations. But they are not, if they were, the cyclization in the CBC case would occur at the other OH group, because the cyclization in fact is done on the carboxylic acids (one might assume that it's there but not drawn, like the double bonds). Maybe you were inspired by the mistaken scheme. Regards, —Mykhal (talk) 20:04, 24 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi Mykhal. If I remember correctly, the scheme was inspired by an extensive review article back in 2006. I am not sure, what you exactly mean - is there data on that particular cyclization? Is there a nice graphical fix (e.g. a fat cyclization indicator from the other OH)? Cacycle (talk) 15:24, 26 September 2018 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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User:Kailash29792: It works fine for me... You could try to comment out sections of your massive user script collection (enclose them in /* multi-line comment */). Cacycle (talk) 18:08, 26 March 2019 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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One posted Thursday September 10th, 2020 says: "I am a symbolic parasite. I am the washing machine of knowledge. I am the singularity of thought. I am the most prolific editor of the Lysergic acid diethylamide Wikipedia page. I was the only kid in fifth grade with a mustache."
This appears to be you, at 194 edits to that page.
I hope the randomness of this is vague interesting.
Please give me a few days, I am busy :-) Cacycle (talk) 07:53, 9 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Edit request
Hi Cacycle! A user is requesting that an edit be made to one of your scripts in order to update it. This obviously requires your approval. :-) You can view the request by clicking here (permalink). Cheers - ~Oshwah~(talk)(contribs) 07:26, 9 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Please give me a few days, I am really busy :-) Cacycle (talk) 07:53, 9 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi,
To give you a bit more context: in this edit request, I was asking for a change that we already discussed in 2014. I know that it is just a workaround for some problems you wanted to fix in a better way, but it looks that you had to revert the fix twice. It's still the only detail that blocks frwiki from using the original script.
It's not urgent, but in case you have no time at all for the maintenance of this script anymore, please tell us if it's OK for you to let interface administrators deal with edit requests about it.
+1 support for adding this setting. Keeping the nbsp literals, or replacing them with normal spaces, makes much more sense than replacing them with entities, at least on the French wiki. Just one nitpick, I'd rather name the setting convertNbspLiteralsToEntities (as "nbsp" here refers to both the literal and the entity). Od1n (talk) 02:02, 11 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi, did you get a chance to look at this small change? As noted in the original discussion, I already tested the new version to be sure that the behavior is unchanged unless the new option is explicitly set. Orlodrim (talk) 18:43, 23 October 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
If you don't have time, could you maybe just agree to let other people evaluate the proposed change? Orlodrim (talk) 21:26, 5 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
If I remember correctly, it was not possible to reliably conserve \xa and at the same time and/or it interferes with some wikEd functions. Cacycle (talk) 22:03, 5 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Yes, exactly. And unfortunately, I don't have a solution to this problem. But as long as this is unsolved, a better compromise for frwiki is to not try to conserve \xa and have it converted to spaces, rather than to (I can explain the details if you're interested).
That's what the option that I propose would do. I'm not claiming that it should be enabled anywhere else, I just would like to have the option in the original script so that no fork is needed.
It's just a 6-line change, and I checked that it does not change anything by default :) Orlodrim (talk) 20:54, 17 November 2020 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi,
Sorry to insist. Could you please take a look at my request? You asked me to wait for a few days, but it's been almost two months now.
Alternatively, if you are not interested in maintaining this script, please say so. That's also perfectly fine. Then interface administrators could look at it. However, since you're still occasionally contributing, they won't do that without your agreement.
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Hey Cacycle, it looks like you've got some user scripts in use by others that have bare javascript global wg-style variables. These are phab:T72470 deprecated, and while I don't think there's a timeline for their removal, it's been that way for a while. It's usually a straightforward fix, all uses need to use mw.config.get, such as converting wgTitle to mw.config.get('wgTitle'). There's some more info at mw:ResourceLoader/Migration guide (users)#Global wg variables. I can take care of cleaning them up for you if you like, or give you a full list if you want to handle it, just let me know! ~ Amory(u • t • c) 11:56, 29 January 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Took care of this, even the old ones. ~ Amory(u • t • c) 13:15, 4 February 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
Hi. It looks like the script stopped working (on ruwiki) due to strict class matching. Needs to replace all .className === 'diff-otitle' to .classList.contains( 'diff-otitle' ) and .className === 'diff-ntitle' to .classList.contains( 'diff-ntitle' ). Thanks. Serhio Magpie (talk) 23:02, 26 August 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
I forked the script and implemented the changes, it works, thank you User:Serhio Magpie. My common.js entry:
/* Triangle at top of diff view - Backlink: [[User:Cacycle/wikEdDiff]]*/
/* Original script broke & author MIA. Forked and made changes recommended at User_talk:Cacycle#wikEdDiff */
importScript('User:GreenC/wikEdDiff2.js');
Cacycle, if you return, please let me know so I can remove the fork back to your version when working. -- GreenC 16:15, 28 August 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
GreenC I can service an update if someone gets a proposed diff together. I am missing my improved differ also. :) IznoPublic (talk) 20:48, 28 August 2021 (UTC)Reply[reply]
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