There doesn't seem to be any objection to adding the loader code to MediaWiki:Common.js/edit.js. The sooner, the better, no? : - ) --MZMcBride (talk) 21:08, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
Hello. I have sent you an email regarding MediaWiki:Titleblacklist; I didn't want to post on any talk page because of WP:BEANS. Thanks, GlobeGores (talk page | user page) 00:21, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Just quickly, what is the purpose of the badtitles page? Simply south (talk) 23:12, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
I see you moved the system messages Uploadtext/en-ownwork, Uploadtext/en-withpermission and Uploadtext/en-nonfree out of the MediaWiki namespace to allow non-admins to edit them. While I see your point and agree that this could well be a good idea, there's one little problem: redirects from system messages don't work. The only reason the customized upload forms didn't break immediately is that (as I understand it) Wikimedia's servers are set to cache these messages rather aggressively, so that any change is likely to take a few days to have any effect.
Fortunately, there does seem to be a workaround in this case. I've edited the messages you moved to replace the redirects with transclusions; this seems to work on my test wiki at least. We'll see in a few days whether it works here too. (Unfortunately, even this won't work with the corresponding license selector pages, since those aren't actually parsed as normal wikitext.) —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 09:07, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
User:Remember the dot was bold and unprotected the page. I've cleaned it up the best I can. Please let me know if I missed anything, or screwed up anything.
I found your comments at WP:AN helpful. You helped me refocus on the dangers from others' points of view.
Thank you.
The Transhumanist 18:49, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
See here -- can you do something about variants of the n-word? Thanks, NawlinWiki (talk) 03:03, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
Thanks! I was trying to add HAGGR, RGGAH, HRMY, and YMRH based on this morning's vandalism, but I messed up the formatting, and then you modified the list. Could you add these, please? Thanks, NawlinWiki (talk) 15:49, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Ilmari Karonen -- Aha! As you know, this was nothing other than a mildly embarrassing illustration of the phrase "much ado about nothing" ....
When I explored the links at the side of each page -- aeons ago, I guess I just didn't recognize something as fundamental as 2+2=4. Somehow, I simply didn't appreciate what could result from clicking on the "What links here" option.
So ..., I guess this becomes an illustration of another Shakespeare phrase -- the one about "all's well that ends well." Thanks again for the feedback. Please join me in chuckling about my unique ability to misunderstand something which now seems so transparently obvious. --Tenmei (talk) 22:42, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
..for the cut-and-paste move of Of The Wand & The Moon, I tried moving it but it didn't work, so I forgot about the moving conventions due to my impatiency. This has not occured before, and will not in the future. Thank you for the note and for cleaning up my mess. Cheers, –Holt T•C 15:55, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
...for fixing 'db-reason' :) Exxolon (talk) 21:53, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
Hi Ilmari, in a couple of places, you have made edits using VX with the edit summary "Fixing temporary "arxiv.org/PS_cache" and obsolete "arxiv.org/ftp" URLs to link to abstract page with download links instead (with script assistance)." In other words, you changed the links so they linked not straight to the download page of say a pdf. I'm not complaining or anything, but I was just wondering, does Wikipedia have a policy to follow that says what you did was is the way links should be given, or was it purely an aesthetic reason? Just curious s'all. Deamon138 (talk) 20:02, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
I understand your point, just a thought came to mind. At the sites of transcriber companies you can see samples of the scores which are derived from well known composers.
Mine is not the entire song just the intro. I wanted to illustrate musicians of how to properly transcribe the song, given that throughout the years I have not been able to find an accurate transcription commercial or non-commercial.
Anyway, I have already required an immediate deletion. Thanks.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Fefogomez (talk • contribs) 21:00, 23 June 2008
Hi, I've been working on cleaning up the JS & CSS at the Irish Wiktionary and have just got to the various bits of 'specialchars' code. Since your new implementation looks good I thought I'd try getting it to work over there, but so far I haven't had much success.
There have been a couple of different ways this kind of thing has been added in the past and I'm not sure if this is interfering in any way. At the moment I have edittoolstest.js in my userspace and I'm importing it in my monobook.js. edittoolstest.js is set to load MediaWiki:Edittools.js and I've added a placeholder <div> to MediaWiki:Edittools (copied from MediaWiki:Edittools here).
After fiddling about with this for a while I'm coming to the conclusion that I don't really understand it! I'd be most grateful if you could have a look and see if there's something obvious I'm doing wrong here.
Thanks in advance, ☸ Moilleadóir ☎ 07:29, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Okay, I think I solved it. For some reason, on wikt:ga the runOnloadHook() function is called later than here on the English Wikipedia. (There's a line of JS at the bottom of the page HTML that should run it as soon as all the HTML has loaded, but for some reason that doesn't work on wikt:ga so that it only runs when the actual window.onload event fires.) This means that the Edittools.js script tries to attach EditTools.setup to the onload event after it has already fired, and so ends up doing nothing. The modified versions I set up at wikt:ga:Úsáideoir:Ilmari Karonen/edittoolstest.js and wikt:ga:Úsáideoir:Ilmari Karonen/edittools.js ought to work; I'll still need to make the same changes to the versions here on enwiki, though hopefully they won't really be needed here. Still, it'd be nice to know what's causing the different behavior... —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 17:12, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
I just thought of something but it may not exist. Can you google to see if there are any finnish figures on consumption in finland (either euro amounts of trade or tonnes consumed annually?). It may not exist but just thought would be good to chekc for once....Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 10:40, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
Addendum - for some reason I can't open the first one, can you tell me what the title is in finnish and english so I can put it into the inline reference? Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 12:49, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
Hello Ilmari Karonen,
please send your real-name, your wikiname, your prefered login-name and the public part of your ssh-key to . We plan to create your account soon then. --DaB. 14:58, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
Couple things. First of all, both pages were created indepedently of each other. I created the List not knowing that there was another, more comprehensive list out there. That's why I wanted to get rid of the lesser list, so that only the more comprehensive one was used. You can go ahead and delete the other page, all the content on it has already been incorporated into the other article. Thank you for your assistance. Benkenobi18 (talk) 23:43, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
SA also tagged few other images i uploaded for same reason, but they all are free.
Lakinekaki (talk) 05:58, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
If you look towards the end of the paragraph which you were editing, it contains: <ref>Insert footnote text here</ref>, and the bot kept interpreting it as your addition. It isn't supposed to trigger on words that aren't changed in the diff. I'm looking into it, thanks for reporting it. tj9991 (talk | contribs) 14:06, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
We had earlier been trying to settle on wording to use for a guideline governing the unit symbol to use for the liter. There is now a vote, here at Straw poll on unit symbol usage for the liter to settle on just what it is we hope to accomplish with any guideline’s wording. I hope to see you there. Greg L (talk) 22:57, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
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for the cleanup help. NawlinWiki (talk) 20:35, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
Ilmari,
for some reason the above page lists itself in Category:Other images that should be in SVG format. I have no idea why, but I can't see any reason for it to be there. is that something you can fix? --Ludwigs2 01:18, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Hi, I'm just curious to come by to ask for information. Can you tell me what the page MediaWiki:Edittools.js is for? I have thought that MediaWiki:Edittools is enough to create an insert character feature on MediaWiki. Vinhtantran (talk) 02:29, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
window.testJsEdittools = true;
" to your monobook.js. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 02:36, 18 August 2008 (UTC)Hi, just in regards to your comment on the RFBA - it would be excellent if you could perform a toolserver query or database dump scrape for the categories that include userspace pages. Having some raw data to work with would be great to see how feasible this will be. Thanks, ~ AmeIiorate U T C @ 12:04, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Hello Ilmari Karonen, I know you didn't precisely write this article, but...
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Hi.
Apologies if I'm being dense, but, when you say this should be working now, how/where do I implement it? Sardanaphalus (talk) 14:09, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
--Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:06, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the inquiry about expanding the article on this most interesting spider. I am not qualified to make any more contributions than I have already on the subject. I became aware of it via an article in the scientific literature digest Science News, citing scholarly work on the subject, and did some Google researching and citation following to expand what I knew. Ohwilleke (talk) 19:01, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
Re: [5] - if I had wanted to know about such things I would have asked about them, but no, you had to grab the coat-tails of OrangeMarlin's scurrilous accusations and poison the well still further. In future, if you have nothing to add relevant to a question, I suggest you remain silent. I have removed the question because I cannot cope with the unfounded and malicious blackening of my motives by certain of the contributors to it. You, as an admin, should really know better. DuncanHill (talk) 00:01, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for the help on Nagle's algorithm. Im a new editor so I apologize if I ask redundant questions. I asked for references because I did not see enough on the nagle page..Was I correct in my question or did I just miss something obvious? It has hard to tell if from your pithy response. How did you find the references? Did you just do a google book search with the term?? Is google book search pretty exhaustive? Are we allowed to pull short quotes from them under fair use? THanks for your help and just to let you know I would really enjoy collaborating with you on an article..Cheersaharon42 (talk) 19:02, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
I don't think you overdid the bold text at all! DuncanHill (talk) 16:18, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
As I was writing this, I realised that using braces in headings is probably not a very good idea. :-) Waltham, The Duke of 23:33, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
so it seems you have to be sure about the rotation of the image before you upload it. thank you for your help! Philadams (talk) 02:25, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi Ilmari-- For some reason, I just now saw your post at MediaWiki_talk:Edittools#User-added functions to edittools. Thanks! But I think I might need more hand-holding if you don't mind. Since I use MySkin in my preferences, I created myskin.js with this text:
It adds the tool to my edit sessions, but using it just sticks the template tag in front of the text I highlight. What I would like to be able to do is highlight my target text and have the tool wrap its code around the text this way:
Am I making sense? Is this possible? Sorry to bug you with this, but I'm a little out of my league here. Thanks in advance if you can point me in the right direction. -Eric talk 17:55, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
window.charinsertCustom = { "Insert": "{\{SharedIP|+))" };
window.charinsertCustom = { "Insert": "{\{SharedIP|+))", "Insert": "{\{SharedIPEDU|+))" };
window.charinsertCustom = { "Insert": "{\{SharedIP|+)) {\{SharedIPEDU|+))" };
Hello Ilmari- I'm hoping I can bother you with another customization question! I would like to add a couple shortcuts to my Commons editing interface that would make it easier to create interwiki links. I was assuming it could be done in a way similar to what you helped me with above, but I don't see an Insert option in the edittools drop-down on Commons. I'm wondering if I can create a custom.js page on Commons that would allow me to simply type a string, select that text, then hit a link that would wrap it with the interwiki link. For example, if I want to make a link in a Commons file description to the en.wp article on Chinon, I would type that text, then hit a link or button that would result in this:
[[:en:Chinon|Chinon]]
(where the red text is what I type and the green is what the tool adds). Am I making sense? Can this be done, or is there maybe a better way? Thanks in advance for any tips, and tell me if you think I should move this to my Commons talkpage or elsewhere. Kiitos, Eric talk 20:10, 20 January 2015 (UTC)
Just wanted to thank you for the wikitable help over at Köchel catalogue. I knew there had to be a way to do this stuff, I just didn't know how (and got caught up in a sucky day). Where can I learn more about this kind of thing? It looks as though you have a good handle on script writting and wiki-markup, where can I learn this stuff? Padillah (talk) 15:07, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
As my IP and IT skills leave much to be desired. How on earth would I discover what school? If you aren't keen on providing a primer here, please feel free to email me offline. - Arcayne (cast a spell) 15:28, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
Hi, and help! It seems that the extension I recently added to CollapsibleTables breaks the script in AOL 9.0, while being fine in FF 2.0, IE7, Safari, etc. Can you shed any light on what's going on? Happy‑melon 10:09, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
element
with the var
keyword so that it's locally scoped — I doubt that's the problem, but I guess it's just barely possible that the code might be clobbering some global variable of the same name. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:37, 2 October 2008 (UTC)Hello. Looks like you're a regular there? Check out User:Rootology/Images#Orphaned images which is the product of BJ's query for me. It's probably an insane, and like you said thankless job, but between working on articles/FACs I want to try to clean it up. I figured I'd just go through them in batches of ten, like at User:Rootology/Images/1. Either it'll work back into an article, move to Commons, or end up at IFD or the rare CSD, as it's ended up so far. I'd guess it's going a little less than 50% to IFD, maybe. Maybe 40%, so far, give or take, with a handful of CSDs. The rest have been a split of commons moves and reuse, or just leaving it as is in a couple. In case I don't see the IFD replies on an interesting (or important!) one on the IFD page could you let me know on my talk to look again? rootology (C)(T) 05:25, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for uploading Image:Lyria logo.gif. The media description page currently specifies that it is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, it is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the media was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that media for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).
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...for your input here regarding my question on aircraft callsigns. Much appreciated. 70.122.36.93 (talk) 05:50, 10 October 2008 (UTC)