User talk:Lightmouse

script problems

I think I might have to go back to your version before it all went awry, and copy it across to my monobook until it's fixed. It was going so well ... :-) Tony (talk) 15:29, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Oh dear. Don't do that. If it is really bad, I will revert it a few versions myself. Lightmouse (talk) 15:39, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Try now. The new code from Gimmetrow that allows us to switch between mdy and dmy is a major feature. We need that. Unfortunately it works in a different way and I don't understand it all. That is why we both have to be a little tolerant of downtime. It is frustrating for you but think how frustrating it might be for me too when I try to learn new code, merge old and new code, and add features without breaking the old ones. I have gone back a few versions and we will build it up again. Let me know if the mdy<->dmy switching works for you now. Lightmouse (talk) 16:12, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, it's still the same. Yes, it was a major improvement, since so many articles have mixed formatting and it allows the script to audit at a much deeper level. But this feature did work for a few days; it all worked beautifully. I don't understand what has happened, and why it's not possible to locate the version that did work, and for me to load it by pasting it in temporarily. Briefly:

"Delink all dates" is dead.
Neither "Delink all dates to dmy" or "... mdy" forces the other format to change, and seems to have developed all of these glitches—critically, the one where unlinked month is mangled with the previous word.

Off to bed. Tony (talk) 16:18, 29 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Date script

Have you removed the date-removing script from your monobook? Suddenly, the tabs do not appear in the edit mode for me. It is as your script is not transcluded in my monobook anymore. And it was working so well! Regards, —Mattisse (Talk) 00:07, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The script is still there. Instead of tabs, see the commands on the left side of the screen in the 'toolbox' for example 'Reformat dates to dmy'. Lightmouse (talk) 00:32, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

O.K. Thanks! —Mattisse (Talk) 12:50, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

From time to time the script will stop working or behave strangely. If that happens, look at my contributions or the history of the script itself to see if I have made a recent change. If you want any changes or bugfixes, just tell me at User:Lightmouse/wishlist. Regards Lightmouse (talk) 12:53, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks; it appears to be working well, although I need to run it on more articles to see whether the "and" problem has gone. Earlier today, I reverted my monobook to one of your versions from 25 August, which worked OK, except that it was scrubbing "year in" pipes. Now I've gone back to the transcluded version, and yes, the q tab is there. Great. Tony (talk) 13:02, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good I am glad. I am now working on your demonyms. So please be patient if it stops again. It will get more stable when these features are well tested and debugged. Lightmouse (talk) 13:15, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Googling dates with inconsistent date formats: thanks. Once you get away from FAs, there's a much higher incidence of inconsistent formats—more than 50% I'd say. I only bother to point it out when it's a real mess. Even some of our most visited articles are in this category. Tony (talk) 15:06, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes. I thought inconsistent formats would be rare too but now that I am doing the work, I can see many of them. The discusson on dts and dts2 seems to have fizzled out. Lightmouse (talk) 16:36, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

infobox templates

Indeed, the birth–death one is particularly prevalent, like leprosy in biblical times. There are another few I've noticed. Do you want me to list them here as I come across them? Tony (talk) 14:05, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

We can have a list in the wishlist. Thanks. Lightmouse (talk) 14:08, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the advice about date unlinking, but...

Hello, Lightmouse. I just installed (or tried to) your date unlinking script. After a false start or two, i got it installed (I think), then went to the page I wanted to work on and tried it, finding the "delink all dates to mdy" on the lower left of the page you get when you edit the page. The page = manga.

As far as I can see, nothing happened. There are still a large number of linked dates in the reference list, many of them in the Accessed Date field. See, for example, references 110 and 126 of the manga article.

Now what?

Timothy Perper (talk) 13:25, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You need to clear your cache before it will work. The instructions on how to clear your cache are at the top of: User:Timothy Perper/monobook.js. Let me know if it work after you have done that. Lightmouse (talk) 13:29, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I already did that -- thanks, but it still didn't work. I use Safari (on a Mac), and the instructions for clearing the cache aren't accurate. It says hit the "reload" button, but Safari 1.3.2 (v312.6), the one I have, does not have a "reload" button. It has a "stop/reload" button, but reloading with that button didn't make the script work. Safari also has a "reload page" button in the View menu, but hitting that doesn't make the script work. So I cleared the cache (a different procedure) and that didn't work either. Any hints? Timothy Perper (talk) 13:57, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Timothy, I also use Safari for the Mac. It's the semicircular arrow button top left. Otherwise, Command–R will do it. Let me know. Tony (talk) 14:00, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

4AD

Thank you for your script, it's brilliant. Quick question/feature request, though, would it be possible to ignore the article 4AD? It comes up quite often on band pages and such and is a bit annoying to fix, especially in discographies that list which label each album was released on. --Closedmouth (talk) 13:50, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]