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Newsfeed
My browser (Opera v 7.45) has just begun notifying me via a newsfeed of the latest changes to Wikipedia. Since last Sunday there have been 800+ of them. I don't recall having signed up for this within Wikpedia, but there is a box for it on the list of newsfeeds with comes with Opera, so I clicked it. I can't find about this newsfeed service on Wikipedia itself, but I am sure I am looking in the wrong place. Does anyone know where it might be? Its a brilliant idea. Apwoolrich 15:01, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Klingon interwiki?
I just noticed that the Klingon interwiki links don't work. I mean when you put them in all nice they appear at the bottom of the page and not at the side. I don't know anything about Klingon so I don't know if this is a problem they know about. It doesn't seem to work for any pages. I am not so concerned about it because it is not my problem. However, if they have problems, what other lesser language is not getting representation? --[[User:Sunborn|metta, The Sunborn ☸]] 00:15, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Only Klingon. This really should be mentioned somewhere, but I think it was a compromise between the bureaucrats of "real" languages and Klingon. They will allow Klingon interwikis, but they won't be included along all the "real" languages. (Real must be put in quotes because Esperanto and Interlingua are on there, and they're constructed along with Klingon - the only difference is scale and inspiration). So, you can interwiki to Klingon, but it is kept at the bottom of the page, instead of on the sidebar. So far as I know, the only other language with a similar problem was minnan (?) and I think that's fixed now, that was a genuine bug. --Golbez 00:50, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
- No, as I understand it, you aren't supposed to interwiki link at all. We have a wiki in klingon, but you aren't supposed to link to it. →Raul654 22:26, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
- My recollection matches Raul's -- the agreement was (after long debate) that the objections to the Klingon thing boiled down to the fact that links to a Klingon WP would fuel our critics' fires, but if the thing couldn't be linked to, then no one minded if it happened to use Wikimedia server space. So any Klingon interwiki links should be removed according to policy, I believe, though goodness knows where that's written. I don't have any personal passion to remove them, anyway. :-) Jwrosenzweig 22:54, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- No, as I understand it, you aren't supposed to interwiki link at all. We have a wiki in klingon, but you aren't supposed to link to it. →Raul654 22:26, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
- Excepting the single external link from Klingon language and interwikis on talk pages, I hope? The Klingon Wikipedia is
stupidsilly, but if hard-core Trekkies want to build it, why not? • Benc • 22:56, 17 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Excepting the single external link from Klingon language and interwikis on talk pages, I hope? The Klingon Wikipedia is
- It is no more silly than the Esperanto wiki, more people speak Klingon than Esperanto. But if that is what has been agreed on, then I don't care one way or the other. It is not like I am going to learn either language.--[[User:Sunborn|metta, The Sunborn ☸]] 21:10, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Well, yea, I don't see a reason not to link from Klingon language. (Actually, personally, I'd love to see that as a main page featured article ;) )→Raul654 23:06, Sep 17, 2004 (UTC)
- Here is a the announcement of the decision and a brief mention of the discussions that led to it. The decision at least probably should be better documented, although this post is not hard to find if you look at talk:Klingon language.
- It's probably not good to reopen this debate IMO. It will happen one day I guess, as the compromise seems to have been brokered between a very few people compared to the large number interested, and it's a rather strange one IMO. In a nutshell the result of some people wanting to give Klingon less prestige and prominence has been that it's received unique treatment and become very prominent indeed. Life's like that sometimes. Andrewa 03:05, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Table with solid borders?
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How do you make a solid border table when global css is turned off and this doesn't work?
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td style="font-size:20px;"><strong>Why no td bg?</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#660000"> <table border="0" cellspacing="10" cellpadding="2"> <tr bgcolor="#EFEFEF"> <td>1</td> <td>2</td> </tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#FFFFCC">11</td> <td>22</td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table>
- This may be one way where an extra blank row (tr) is added: List of bridges by length
Page move request
Could an admin please move Fianna Eireann to Fianna Éireann (the latter of which is currently a mistaken redirect)? And also, someone who is familiar with the needs to develop this article - it's very one-sided in its stubness. --Kwekubo 19:47, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Move is done, see Talk:Fianna Éireann. Andrewa 21:29, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Error/Bug on the main page
I don't know where to post this but my time is short and this seems like as good a place as any. There is a weird bug on the main page and I think it is against policy. When clicking on the wikisource iceberg, it redirects you to the main german wikipedia. The link at the bottom of the image works fine, the picture link is acting strangely. It is very weird and the redirect information is somewhat useless. I don't know what is going on, it is definiately interesting. --[[User:Sunborn|metta, The Sunborn ☸]] 21:19, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- I get this too. The iceberg takes me to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page and the link below it takes me to http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page:English, not to Wikisource. I've had a quick look and I'm not competent to diagnose or fix it. Andrewa 21:49, 18 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- It's not a bug on the main page or on the image. The image Image:Sourceberg.jpg is a redirect to Wikisource:Main Page. Wikisource: inter-wiki links go to the old URL http://sources.wikipedia.org which is now an HTTP redirect to http://de.wikipedia.org . You can still go to Wikisource with the new URL, http://wikisource.org . This could be fixed by changing the interwiki URL or restoring sources.wikipedia.org but both of these require divine intervention. Goplat 00:49, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Fixed! But I needed to manually clear my Mozilla cache for the fix to take effect, mere reload was not effective. Andrewa 20:25, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Page move request
Could an admin please move RC4 (cipher) to RC4? "Primary topic" disambiguation is more appropriate here than "equal" disambiguation. — Matt 15:40, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Will do. The history of the current RC4 although extensive is all disambiguation page maintenance, and doesn't need preservation. Andrewa 19:11, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
- Done. Discussion on both pages seemed to have reached consensus that this was the best thing, and has been consolidated at talk:RC4. Any problems comment on my talk page for the fastest response from me. Andrewa 19:27, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Is somebody able to delete Image:7. Organizovanost privrede u opstini, strana 315-318.pdf? It is a foreign language pdf file linked to nowhere. I tried deleting it, but without any sucess. I also overwrote the file with some smaller dummy file to see if this helps deleting the file, but so far i could not delete it. -- Chris 73 Talk
Blocks not working
I've tried to block 203.173.8.18 four or five times now, but none of the blocks seem to be taking. Does anyone have any idea why? —No-One Jones (m) 23:21, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)