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Hi, RexxS - I'm not sure what's going on with Firefox - last time you helped me it was a font issue in preferences but I checked it and all is well in that department - at least as far as I can tell. The only change I've made is a recent upgrade on Mac to Catalina OS. I am not having this issue in Safari or Chrome. Any ideas?? Atsme Talk 📧 13:33, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
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and still today! You were mentioned as a possible arb cand, - what do you think? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 09:54, 12 November 2019 (UTC)
Hi, RexxS. I've just been looking at your user page, and I see your memorials to Geogre and Phaedriel. From time to time I come across old posts on some talk page or project page that reminds me of someone I remember as a good editor from back in my early days as an editor, or even someone who was active before I came along and whom I don't remember, but who I now discover was a valuable contributor. On such occasions I tend to feel a sadness, and perhaps nostalgia. I had never thought of making a user page memorial to any of them, as you have done, but it's a very nice idea. I also followed your link to the FfD discussion relating to Geogre. I thought the "keep" comments were, well let's just say ill-chosen, and leave it at that. JBW (talk) Formerly JamesBWatson 14:39, 16 November 2019 (UTC)
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Is there a way to combine the carousel's timed switching with a manual scroll-thru using forward-back arrows on either side of the image? Atsme Talk 📧 21:21, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
((#invoke:carousel | main | name=Atsme | switchsecs = 5))
and preview it roughly every five seconds, it should work through the entire list of filenames and captions for you. There are actually some limits on the number of images you can include, but you'd probably have to have millions of filenames before you got anywhere near the limits that the software imposes. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 15:57, 4 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi! Lately, I was experimenting with the possibilities of data tables on Commons and using them to potentially “internationalise” templates. E.g., I would set variables for all language-depending parts of the code and load the localised values from Commons (via mw.ext.data.get
). This method works fine, generally speaking, but apparently it causes heavy performance issues with multiple calls of the data, letting the Scribunto_LuaSandboxCallback::get time explode (most extreme example I could think of in my case: Testwiki). I then tried to switch to mw.dataLoad
, which clearly reduced the time usage, but it seems still very high to me (same example on BETA); now the main causes are dataWrapper <mw.lua:661> and <mw.lua:683>. I have to admit that I am surprised by this result, the data stored on Commons is not a lot, after all (<50 entries per table). Do you know if this is really the most efficient method to load localised data from Commons? In that case there is no point in further following this path; luckily I don’t need to, since those particular templates have little potential to become globally requested, and I can continue to only focus on keeping the German version working, but lately there have been many talks about “global templates” and this looked like a promising way to me. Would be great to achieve something like this without killing the performance. Regards, XanonymusX (talk) 00:57, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
mw.dataLoad
to be more efficient, primarily because (as I understand it) it caches the load for a page and doesn't have to reload the data on each call for that page. I haven't tried the calls from Commons as you have, so you probably know more than I do about this problem. It looks to me that you've done as much as you can. Hopefully the code will be improved as more people use the calls and ask for better performance. That might take a while. --RexxS (talk) 23:24, 13 December 2019 (UTC)
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Hi Rexxs,
Generic seasonal greetings, best wishes for the new year, etc. and have some good dives, they are good for the state of mind. (I even have a reference - Beneton, Frédéric; Michoud, Guillaume; Coulange, Mathieu; Laine, Nicolas; Ramdani, Céline; Borgnetta, Marc; Breton, Patricia; Guieu, Regis; Rostain, J. C.; Trousselard, Marion (18 December 2017). "Recreational Diving Practice for Stress Management: An Exploratory Trial". Frontiers in Psychology. 8: 2193. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02193. PMID 29326628.((cite journal))
: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link))
Just querying your edit summary Better to have the value when it's been specifically chosen, rather than just left to default, but I'll move it just past 30em to avoid this happening again
regarding column width for ref lists. Why is a specified value better than default? Is the reason specific to the article?
Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood (talk): 06:40, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
|colwidth=
parameter, it's as a result of a conscious decision to use that width and that definitely includes using 30em. That contrasts with simply using the default, which indicates to me that no decision on column widths has been made. If someone removes the |colwidth=30em
, thinking "Oh, it's the same as default; I might as well save a few bytes" and I don't notice, I'll quite likely end up at some point redoing the exercise of finding the optimal colwidth again, which ends up being a waste of my time. If other editors have adopted the same idea as I have, removing parameters will simply cause annoyance, especially when there's no improvement to the article as a result. it makes sense to me; hope it does for you, too. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 08:42, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
|colwidth=30em
, it's almost a guarantee that it's my edit and that I've set the value deliberately. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 21:37, 2 January 2020 (UTC)G'day, RexxS. Could you lend your expertise to help me find information in a Cochrane review?
I cannot access PMID 23877886. I went to a medical library on Friday, and they can't get it either. I am able to see the content via "other means", but I cannot print and easily peruse the article because it is over 300 pages. Nor can I search within the text via ctrl-f. It turns up on a Tourette syndrome search, and I know the content is relevant to TS, but I cannot locate text in the article that pertains specifically to TS. Are you able to ctrl-f in there to find any TS text? Or to give me any ideas of what to do next? Thanks in advance, SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:16, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
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Hi, sweetie pie (can I say that from my heart without becoming a target of whatever, despite my honorable intentions?) If not, please strike it and accept my apologies even though my experiences with you in my mind justifies my position...with the latter aside, my question to you is (drum roll please), are the total "edits" of a user based only on an individual edit count rather than size of the prose in the individual edits? IOW, does an edit of +600 count the same as 1200+ ? What about reverts - does that count as one edit? I'm just trying to figure out what constitutes an edit in WP terms...Atsme Talk 📧 00:08, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
Evening RexxS - I hope you are well. I'm also hoping you can help with a technical mess I've got myself into or, if page moves aren't your bag, suggest someone who might be able to assist. I've done a Start class article on quite an important house, which you can see here, Draft:Mamhead House. It's a draft because I followed, or thought I'd followed, the instructions for converting an existing redirect page which is here, [1]. But now I seem to be stuck in some weird Catch-22. The draft won't let me move it to Mamhead House, because the redirect already occupies that space. But nor can I request a technical move, as I tried to do here, Draft talk:Mamhead House, apparently because it's a draft. So it sends me back here, Wikipedia:Requested moves, which just puts me back in the loop. I've raised a query at the Helpdesk, here, Wikipedia:Help desk#Draft:Mamhead House but am not getting any response. I suspect it needs some kind of admin override and I'd be really grateful for any guidance you could provide. Many thanks. KJP1 (talk) 18:43, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi there, RexxS! Remembering your mastery of breed infoboxes in past, I wondered if you could find a moment to see why the | otherstd =
parameter of ((Infobox dog breed)) isn't working at Maltese (dog). I'm sure the answer will turn out to be, as usual, user error, but I can't see where that error lies. If you don't have time, NP, I'll take it to a help board. Many thanks, Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 22:27, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
data152
should have been data52
, but it's so easy to make that mistake when it's directly under the line starting label52
: the lowercase 'L' looks so much like the digit '1'. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 23:33, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles/RFC on pharmaceutical drug prices opened, but you haven't (re)posted your thoughts yet. It's fine if you want to ...and I suppose there's no real rush, either. This'll probably run at least the bot-default of 30 days. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:03, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi Rexx. Is there a way to do the inverse of module:WikidataIB, basically querying wikidata within wikipedia?
((#invoke:WikidataIB |getValue |P496|qid=Q4273363|fetchwikidata=ALL|onlysourced=no))
→ "0000-0002-4027-364X"((#invoke:QUERY |getQID |P496|value=0000-0002-4027-364X|fetchwikidata=ALL|onlysourced=no))
→ "Q4273363"Any ideas/advice appreciated! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 08:48, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
#Whose Orchid ID
SELECT ?item ?itemLabel
WHERE
{
?item wdt:P496 "0000-0002-4027-364X".
SERVICE wikibase:label { bd:serviceParam wikibase:language "[AUTO_LANGUAGE],en". }
}