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I know of no way that isn't manual but the heavy lifting is always in the translation. Otherwise, you simply go to the foreign article click edit this page, copy the text, paste here, preview to see what templates and links need to be changed to equivalents, and start translating. Nobody but a human can do the translation. It might be helpful sometimes to use machine translation as a starting point and then do the proper job of actual translation—it'll save you some time as certain words it will get right and you might wish to keep, but it will still be word salad.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 00:29, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Different language wikis have very different standards, particularly regarding verifiability and reliable sources. Most are considerably more lax than English Wikipedia.
When translating articles, the 'burdon of evidence' lies with you, so everything needs an appropriate source, according to the standards of this wiki. Smappy (talk) 12:25, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Take a look at the code of, for example, ((Infobox Simpsons season episode list)) and compare it to the Modern Family box to see if you're missing some code. I think the problem might lie with the fact that the box is defined as an infobox, but not being a template wizard I don't know for sure. Xenon54 / talk / 02:54, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
The problem is, these articles are being created very slowly. It would go faster if the "parent" articles contained red wikilinks to make it clear to visitors that we are trying to systematically prepare a "sub" article for each jurisdiction. So I am trying to create these red Wikilinks. However, I don't see why I should be doing this manually for each of HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of articles.
Therefore, I would like two templates that create sections like this automatically (a "state jurisdictions" template and a "federal jurisdictions" template). In the case of a state law article, I envision it working as follows:
I type the proper wiki-text -- something like ((state jurisdictions)) -- immediately before the ==References== section.
When you hit "save", ((state jurisdictions)) gets auto-replaced with text, in the following fashion:
First, the template checks to see what the title of the article is.
Then, it lays down a header, ==TITLE in U.S. state jurisdictions==
Then it lays down fifty bullets, in three-column configuration: *[[TITLE (Alabama)|Alabama]] *[[TITLE (Alaska)|Alaska]] *[[TITLE (Arizona)|Arizona]] ...
Finally, it lays down some invisible text tag like the following: <!--This section was automatically created using the ((state jurisdictions)) template. The documentation for this template is at ... -->
The "federal jurisdictions" template would lay down the header as, ==TITLE in the U.S. Federal circuits==, and it would auto-produce bullets for the twelve jurisdictions at United_States_courts_of_appeals#Circuit_population.
Is there a place where I could request the fashioning of such templates? :)
I mocked up the first for the federal jurisdictions: ((U.S. federal jurisdictions)) Feel free to move it to another name, and any tweaks can be suggested. I put it in columns, which would certainly be appropriate for the state template. Not sure if it's necessary (or looks good) in this one.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 05:57, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
this is a page i created but it doesn't seem to have worked. It is not registering as existing when I try to make it an internal link from other wiki entries. Security1234 (talk) 10:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It works for me. Internal links can be made like this [[Dr Alexander Abercrombie]] and the result you get is Dr Alexander Abercrombie. You probably wrote the name of the article in the link incorrectly. For example if you add a dot after "Dr" ([[Dr. Alexander Abercrombie]]), the link doesn't work anymore--Tired time (talk) 11:05, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
My telephone number is <redacted> My name is Dr Yadiki Jayakumar.
Yesterday evening I had a phone call from one of your staff (<redacted>) from Derby demanding me to pay the line rental as it is over due. He also said I have not responded to two letters from BT (one in January and one is February) which I have never received. I explained that I am not a BT customer any more a since May/June 2009 as now I am a customer of SKY and therefore paying a line rental to sky. However he insisted that i pay the line rental or risk of getting the line disconnected last night. Therefore I paid the line rental (£11=56) through my credit card which has now been processed. I think this is a mistake by BT and therefore would like that amount reimbursed as soon as possible. Please respond to my e-mail address:<redacted>) as soon as possible please and oblige.Also I need an explanation for this mistake by BT.
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I need to add a logo to my company page, and cannot do so because I am not a (auto)confirmed user. How can I change this? I've looked at the section on Wikipedia, but I'm still unsure of the parameters.
Hi there, I've created a wiki account and would like to contribute to an article's discussion section but am getting blocked...am I missing something? Thanks, JPC, Canada —Preceding unsigned comment added by The8welsh (talk • contribs) 14:59, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Due to the fact that Wikipedia content is licensed under the GFDL, all edits must be kept for attribution purposes, and so your account cannot be deleted. You do, however, have the right to vanish, which you can exercise by (1) requesting your user page (found at Special:Mypage) and subpages be deleted, by adding the ((db-userreq)) template to them; (2) requesting to change your username to something that is unconnected with you (possibly a random collection of letters and numbers); (3) never logging in to your account again. The "right to vanish" does not mean anyone has the right to a fresh start under a new identity. Anyone who wants to continue editing should request a change of username instead so edits can be reattributed. Sssoul (talk) 15:14, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
It sounds like you're asking if the mountain pass in South Pass is the same as a South Pass in a book you have called The Comanche Empire. Without knowing more about what's talked about in that part of the book, we can't know. Your question should instead go to Wikipedia:Reference desk, where general knowledge questions are asked. This help desk is for asking questions about using Wikipedia. --Mysdaaotalk17:11, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hey guys, this just started happening to me. How come my signature appears but then a few minutes later Wiki adds a thing that says the post is unsigned? The rules are to use the four squiggly lines and I use them always but still it says post is not signed. Weird. Bbltype 17:14, 25 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbltype (talk • contribs)
The robot that tags the post as unsigned looks for links to your user page or user talk page. Your signature is completely unlinked, which is frowned upon. —Akrabbimtalk17:22, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Oh oops. That was a mistake. How do I fix it? Bbltype 17:28, 25 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bbltype (talk • contribs)
The school that I work for set up a wikipedia page. I want to be an administrator so I can make changes to the page. I want to be able to add a picture of our school from a man who donates his photography to the school. Can I put the picture up and give him a byline and how do I add pictures to our site page? I am logged in under my name but I do not have a page nor do I want one...however...do I have to log in at a different place to be able to make changes to the Saint Joseph Academy Cleveland Wikipedia page that already exists?
Please advise!
Jennreeder (talk) 18:03, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You don't need to be an administrator to edit the page. On Wikipedia, anyone can edit almost any page. Just click "edit this page" at the top of the article you want to edit. For more information, please read Wikipedia:How to edit a page. You can also edit anonymously without an account, but there are benefits to using your account. You can log into your account from any computer with Internet access and then edit almost any page on Wikipedia.
Your school probably didn't create the article St. Joseph Academy (Cleveland, Ohio). Articles can be created by any user with an account, and as I said, anyone can edit existing articles.
You will be able to upload images when your account is autoconfirmed, which happens automatically when your account is at least four full days old and has made at least ten edits. Once an image is uploaded, you can add it to the page. --Mysdaaotalk18:15, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Also note that you appear to have a conflict of interest so you need to be very careful when making edits to the article. For other than minor corrections, it would be better for you to use the article's talk page to make suggestions about the article. Please also note our image use policy - the owner of the copyright of these images will have to release them under a license acceptable to Wikipedia and should do so following the process set out at WP:IOWN. In fact it would be better for them to be uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Commons images can be used in Wikipedia articles. Image issues can be complicated so please do not hesitate to ask for assistance. – ukexpat (talk) 18:27, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Just I would like to know about the publicited number of articles noted at the start wikipedia's webpage. For example it says there are 3.200.000 articles in English, 565.000 in spanish. This mean that supposely only 565.000 articles of the 3.200.000 are translated to spanish??? English is the main language where the other languages articles -after being translated- complement that article??? This is cumulative?? Or If I'd want to know everthing about any topic I should have to make a search on every language available??? How this work?? Can I think that any info I need will be complete while I search it in English otherwise some other info would be missing?
(edit conflict) Each language has its own Wikipedia. The English Wikipedia has the greatest number of articles. Other languages do not have quite as many, as each Wikipedia depends on volunteers to write and maintain articles. Where an English article has a counterpart article in another language's Wikipedia, there is an interwiki link listed on the far left side of the page. TNXMan18:26, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) There is no direct correspondence between the various language Wikipedias. There may be some articles in Spanish having no counterpart in English, for example. All the Wikipedias are independent volunteer collaborative projects, so they contain whatever their user communities have thought important enough to write about so far. All the Wikipedias are unfinished, so you should not regard a Wikipedia article as the final word on any topic. Rather, view Wikipedia as an introduction for your further research. The quality of articles varies as well. The best we call featured articles; the least-developed articles we call stubs. --Teratornis (talk) 18:29, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
In most cases you would probably not need to search every language Wikipedia for a topic. The Wikipedias follow a Pareto distribution of size: a few are large, and many are still small. As a rule of thumb, you can usually find most of the relevant information on a topic by searching the English Wikipedia and the Wikipedia(s) corresponding to the native language(s) of the region for the topic (if the topic associates with a geographic region). For example, if you are searching for a musical group which is primarily active in Russia, and not known elsewhere, you would search the Russian Wikipedia and you could ignore the Telugu Wikipedia and so on. The unrelated small Wikipedias are very unlikely to have more information to add to a topic unfamiliar to most speakers of those languages. As another example, if you want to know about a topic in a Spanish-speaking country, you would of course search the Spanish Wikipedia in addition to the English Wikipedia. You can also follow the Interlanguage links from an article you find, but these links are only present if Wikipedia editors have put them there. Not all articles have a complete list of interlanguage links yet, and you can add them where you find them missing. --Teratornis (talk) 18:39, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I recently created a page. To my understanding, when you save the page it is supposed to go live and be visible on Google, MSN, and other search engines. However, when I tried searching for my page, it does not appear. What can I do to successfully publish my page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Larry Levin (talk • contribs) 18:22, 25 February 2010
Several talk pages are currently included in CAT:CSD, even though they don't display any indication that they're in that category. Look at Talk:West Orange, New Jersey for example: the only templates on the article are two wikiproject tags. I suspect that this has something to do with a recent process that involved the subst-ing of comments subpages onto the talk page — all of these talk pages are within the New Jersey wikiproject, and they all appear to have had edits such as this, so I'm wondering if perhaps the subst had the effect of adding the speedy category to them without making the category appear in the page coding. I've set my preferences to show hidden categories, but I still can't see Category:Candidates for speedy deletion on any of these pages when I'm looking at their current versions. Any ideas how I can remove the category from these pages? They definitely shouldn't be deleted. Nyttend (talk) 18:39, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
You can use the image_size parameter as I've done on the Evan Turner page. If you don't set it, it defaults to 200px. I'll add it to the doc page. — Bility (talk) 19:34, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I've added the field to the examples in the documentation. Please note that the size should be a bare integer (eg. |image_size=200); the |image_size=200px form might not work correctly because the infobox code adds on a "px" itself. --Redrose64 (talk) 20:03, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Does anyone know how to get scroll bars on wide images when used in a portal? I am trying to add a "selected panorama" to Portal:Tanzania, and have created Portal:Tanzania/Selected panorama, where all the images fit fine. When I look at the portal front page however, when the wider images are displayed (nos. 4, 5 & 6), no scroll bars appear and the page stretches out to fit the whole width of the picture, including all of the other boxes on the page. The code I am using for this section is:
Hello your doing it all right..the scroll bar will only appear if the image is to big..So say you put 500 in |size=500 as bar may appear..now browsers also may see pages differently..as i only see 1 scroll bar out of this two--> Portal:Brazil and Portal:Norway ...hope this helps..Buzzzsherman (talk) 20:07, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
We are creating a Wikipedia page for a company and how/where do we complete the background information box with profile picture that is normally on the top right side of the page? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.127.9.55 (talk) 20:46, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Licensing and use Apparently File:Mos.jpg used to be a picture of a mosque. Someone uploaded a new version portraying Scott Mosier and Kevin Smith. These need to be two separate images (note that it is being used on an article about an Islamic school and other-language Wikipedias.) Also, there is a license tag, but I'm not sure for which image. Does someone want to do me the favor of sorting out which image has which tag and upload the Scott Mosier picture to a more intelligible name? I would do it myself, but I'm honestly just too ignorant about and intimidated by image licensing issues. Thanks. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:55, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I reverted to the old version and informed the uploader to upload to a unique filename on his talk page. In the future, you can revert to previous versions by clicking "revert" in the table next to the version you want to go back to. — Bility (talk) 22:00, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
How to request votes on topics concerning all Wikipedia articles
Specifically, I want to request and put to a vote that all lowercase -> uppercase redirects be deleted.
For example, if I type "george w. bush" into the search field and click Go, my address bar will say ".../wiki/George_w._bush" and the article will be titled "George W. Bush", but with a subtitle saying "(Redirected from George w. bush)", because there is a redirect from "George w. bush" to "George W. Bush". However, if I type "rick perry" and click Go, I will be taken directly to Rick Perry because the article Rick perry does not exist.
MediaWiki automatically makes this change, and does so more neatly and seamlessly than we do manually by adding such a redundant redirect. There must be thousands of such redirects, mostly for major subjects with proper nouns, which are not only unnecessary but actually negatively impact, if only in a small way, the Wikipedia experience. Furthermore, they would have to be manually updated should the proper noun article be moved, adding an extra layer of unnecessary annoyance.
If this were a matter of a single redirect I could make motion on the talk page there, but this potentially affects thousands of articles, and should be somewhere central. Where should I do this? —INTRIGUEBLUE(talk|contribs)22:41, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I'd like to explain a math concept by showing a video recording. Is there a way of uploading video content to the wikipedia site and tagging words in the text description with the URL for the video? Or, would I have to upload the video to YouTube.com and tagging the word (or phrase) with the URL on youtube?
Words in blue are linked to other pages on wikipedia site. When a user clicks on a blue word, he is directed to another page where the original word (or phrase) is explained in more detail. But what if I want to explain the word (phrase) with a video recording instead of with text? How should I tag a word, which has already been tagged, (i.e., is in already in blue, with a hyperlink), so that the reader can see the video instead of reading more text? Can i send users to youtube from your site so that they can see a video recording? or will your community reject (cancel) such links that send users to other websites.
Please reply soon.
thank you.
Jaffer
23:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)23:13, 25 February 2010 (UTC)calcuscribe (talk)
For uploading video files, see Wikipedia:Creation and usage of media files#Video. I'm not sure exactly what you have in mind when you refer to "tagging words in the text description". Normally, what the video shows would be explained in the caption for the video (see the examples in the section I linked in the preceding sentence) and/or in the nearby text of the article in which it appears. If you want to link to a video on an external site, you can add the link in the "External links" section of the article—assuming that it meets the guidelines at WP:EL—titling the link with a suitable descriptive phrase. Deor (talk) 03:21, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
i would like to know why no matter what charity what country that children are in, that it is never the parents who are dying of starvation or being abused or being made to work in dreadful conditions i find it really hard to understand why no one ever deals with this problem they always ask for money but to me they never seem to actually do anymore to help these poor kids. dont unicef and other childrens charities think that talking to and advising parents on contraception(as they seem to me to just keep producing more when 1 dies of starvation) and that they feed their kids first instead of themselves there would be less starving children in the world after all these children are supposed to be the future of the world instead of constantly asking for money maybe they should try educating them about these things —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.5.50.97 (talk) 23:25, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Please refrain from typing in all caps (known informally as "shouting"). This is considered impolite and attention-seeking behaviour, and is thus discouraged. I have taken the liberty of refactoring your post to be more readable, through the addition of an ((lc:)). To your original question: poor conditions for children in the developing world is a serious problem and there are many ways you can help. However, this is the Wikipedia Help Desk, where we provide assistance to users of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is a not-for-profit organization devoted to creating a free online encyclopaedia, and is not affiliated with any of the topics which it covers. This is not the appropriate avenue via which to express your concerns about the world's problems. Intelligentsium23:35, 25 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]
In response to the original question, adults in the third and fourth world are also starving to death, being abused, and being made to work in sweatshops. We simply don't hear as much about them because "Somebody think of the children!" gets more sympathy donations. And many NGOs are doing amazing work to improve living conditions in impoverished nations all over the world. There are simply too many people in dire poverty to be easily helped with token donations by people in the first world. —INTRIGUEBLUE(talk|contribs)00:44, 26 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]