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Hello,
I'd like to add the small monthly calendar template located in the top right of date wikipedia pages (for example, in July 19) to my userpage. I checked the page's source code, and it says the template is ((calendar)). When I add this, my userpage ends up with a large yearly calendar, and when I try and fix this by setting it to the current month, I get a string of errors in the broken template.
Does anyone have any advice on what's happening and if I'm doing something wrong?
User:Heyoostorm_talk! 01:14, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
((calendar))
. It is setting some of its parameters based on the page name of the page that includes it (?!). You will need to set those parameters yourself to get the result you want on your page. -Arch dude (talk) 01:48, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
I see that a talk page about a university contains claims of sexism and being a "hotbed for the far-right" [1] with a series of links that do not say that according to talk history. It seems that the issue already has been addressed in the talk page archives [2] but that the user copy pasted its claim in the main talk page, without the answers, for it to stick to online readers. Can be considered an abusive use of talk page or should people give again the same answers to the same claims? Is there something to do about it?
Besides, it is written on the user page that he has been aggressive in the past against others, and he has been against me (I wrote something in the ANI, but with no answer) and I don't want to be on the receiving end of his attacks any more, is there a way to pass on the issue to somebody else (just raising the issue but not being involved so that the user does not attack me)?
Thank you.
Delfield (talk) 10:24, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
Trying to link just the Saracen in Saracenhorns like this: "[[Saracen]]horns" but it's assuming I want the whole word (appears like Saracenhorns). Is there a way to just get the "Saracen" of the word linked? Aza24 (talk) 10:37, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
@Aza24 and Victor Schmidt mobil: Please just don't do it, per WP:PLA. If Saracenhorn is closely related to Saracens, you can just mention them in the text and then link the topic directly. If it's not, there's no need for the link (similarly, you would not link Lake in 'Los Angeles [Lake]rs', would you?) --CiaPan (talk) 11:59, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
There seems to be a problem with the archiving bot at Talk:Richard Nixon. A lot of the more recent discussions seem to have been added to the first and second archived talk pages. I'd be grateful if someone could have a look at this and hopefully fix it (I don't have a clue how to do it myself). Many thanks, --Viennese Waltz 12:03, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
Technical details relating to a question about WP database dumps
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I downloaded some of the 20200920 bz2 wikidumps and took care of checking their md5 and sha1 sums. To my understanding there is simply no way that the content of the compressed files containing the pages (which I have also eyeballed) could have been corrupted without anyone noticing. Yet, when you decompress them you will see <sha1>...</sha1> segments containing CDATA inside of every <page>...</page> segment right after the <text bytes="[byte length of the UTF-8 text]" xml:space="...">...</text> (which "bytes" (length) value I have checked for every text segment). The sha1 string value which doesn't make any sense to me, because: * sha1 values are 40 bytes long * sha1sum Linux utility is telling me it doesn't seem to be right let's use as an example: frwiki-20200920-pages-articles-multistream6.xml-p13574284p13592810.bz2 <page> <title>The New Woody Woodpecker Show</title> <ns>0</ns> <id>13580602</id> <redirect title="Le Nouveau Woody Woodpecker Show" /> <revision> <id>174712998</id> <timestamp>2020-09-14T13:14:29Z</timestamp> <contributor> <username>Bob08</username> <id>14737</id> </contributor> <comment>lien</comment> <model>wikitext</model> <format>text/x-wiki</format> <text bytes="49" xml:space="preserve">#REDIRECTION Le Nouveau Woody Woodpecker Show</text> <sha1>276az6ruof7t45y5svax3omeamdxps3</sha1> </revision> </page> ~ 276az6ruof7t45y5svax3omeamdxps3 is only 31 bytes long and this is what Linux message digest utilities tell me: $ echo "#REDIRECTION Le Nouveau Woody Woodpecker Show" | sha1sum f1160df2ed230af750122eb08376dfb9251b8951 - $ sha1sum "/home/lbrtchx/cmllpz/temp/checkSHA1.txt" f1160df2ed230af750122eb08376dfb9251b8951 /home/lbrtchx/cmllpz/temp/checkSHA1.txt $ cat "/home/lbrtchx/cmllpz/temp/checkSHA1.txt"
~ So, I have three related questions: * What do those "sha1" segments inside of each "page" right bellow the "text" segment mean? * Do you know of any "anatomical" analysis posted officially by wikipedia or anyone else with the explanation of the meaning of the tags they use? I could understand as topical such tags as: en|User talk ja|Category ru|ÐšÐ°Ñ‚ÐµÐ³Ð¾Ñ€Ð¸Ñ en|Category talk en|Category ar|تصني٠ko|분류 ja|Wikipedia ru|Шаблон ja|Template en|Wikipedia en|Template ru|Ð’Ð¸ÐºÐ¸Ð¿ÐµÐ´Ð¸Ñ en|Template talk ko|í‹€ en|Draft but I am not so sure about: ja|The Ultimate Fighter en|Star Wars ru|Pirates of the Caribbean ja|Pokémon the Series are those colons in the titles officially used to define general topical matters such as Categories or anyone can just type a colon in a title to a message? or both? and in the last case which topics are owned by wikipedia and which aren't? * There is also some funky mark up they use inside of their text segment which is xml-ish but not exactly xml. All I've heard was that such mark up is used as part of the processing through a mysql database. Could you safely use that kind of mark up to parse the document's segments? lbrtchx |
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Albretch Mueller (talk • contribs) 12:09, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I have used the online tool Vectr to edit and improve an existing Wikimedia SVG file (of a geographic map) but when I use the Upload Wizard I get this message: "found unsafe css in the style element of uploaded svg file". I used the Vectr tool previously to edit and successfully upload SVG files. Is there a simple fix? Is there a simple tool to import and export a clean Wikimedia-compliant version? I looked at using Inkscape but it seems complicated to install and use. I tried LibreOffice Draw but struggled to ungroup everything. Could I send the SVG to someone who is an expert who could quickly load and correct it? Thanks for any assistance you can offer, Douglal (talk) 12:41, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
25 November 2020 edits to UVB-76 were remove "because it did not appear constructive"
The first air date references make an unsubstantiated claim that UVB-76 was first heard in 1973, there is no proof of this and none is given by the "source" The claim is hearsay and has no basis in fact, because no evidence of this is provided to the reader.
The YouTube video is a fake, unless proven if in fact it was from 2 August 1976. The YouTube poster has never replied back to any "its a fake" comments nor does this YouTube poster have any other videos to back up this claim.
Keeping these poorly created "references" degrades the Wikipedia reputation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.38.107.53 (talk) 15:06, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello I represent Charlie Jones - Charlie Jones (musician) The site says it needs additional citation for verification Can you pleas elet me know what you need as we would very much like to sort it out asap! Many thanks for your help Carole Say — Preceding unsigned comment added by Helrecs (talk • contribs) 15:38, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
Hello, I recently created Andreas Roloff by translating it from German to English. I made a mistake in carrying over the citations. I thought they would all transfer over, but I think I did it incorrectly. Is there an easier way than having to go through the article and change every last number box to the proper citation? Is there a bot that will do this automatically? Thank you. Thriley (talk) 19:45, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
<ref>...</ref>
tags. So, for example, if you left out the citation that was in the original German article that had been numbered footnote 6, but placed the citations from the original that were numbered 7 through 100 from that original, those would automatically then display as 6 through 99. If I'm missing the issue, though, please advise. Best regards--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 02:00, 26 November 2020 (UTC)Template:DriverDB driver appears to be a system to generate external links to a commercial website and these links are very valuable for SEO purposes. I noticed it today on the Lewis Hamilton article. I do not know what is the protocol for deletion of a template, so I thought I would ask about it here. This looks abusive. Thanks! Jtbobwaysf (talk) 19:48, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
I’m not a fan of Estella Warren, the actress. I do like the info about her. I don’t like the picture of her. It looks like she’s in distress or being arrested by the police. Can someone change the photo If Estella to a more current one, that shows a better image of her, please? 20:12, 25 November 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.158.246.240 (talk)