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Just a quick message for your continuing contribs to the article - turns out this is a long and winding road to FA... :-S Colds7ream (talk) 07:50, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
En/Em dashes
I noticed that you already went through and caught a couple of these... Were these the only instances you saw needing correcting, or should I still take a look? I just didn't want to go through the entire thing for this issue if someone else already has. :) Pax85 (talk) 16:57, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
British English is not the globally accepted standard you think it is. More than half of the documentation, contracts, books and WEB PAGES that are published and distributed worldwide are in American English. 70.170.125.247 (talk) 23:25, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
Queen of Swords
Hi, I am in England and have been expanding this article ever since it was first shown here in September 2008, seven years after cancellation. Was it shown in the Netherlands? If so, did they change the title as I would like to add it to the article. From youtube correspondance it is very popular in Eastern Europe. In the UK it is shown 9am at weekends. I am sure the broadcasters think it is a childrens series.REVUpminster (talk) 07:34, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
Finally got around to sorting this out; it turned out be to be done of Mark Shuttleworth's images, rather than NASA or RKA. I have a PGP signed email confirmed such and that it is available as CC-BY-SA. Would you be able to look into undeleting it? —Sladen (talk) 23:19, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
Hello, I'm a portuguese language Wikipedia user. Please, add the interwiki [[pt:Predefinição:Info Televisão]] in the template {{Infobox Television}}, because the page is protect for IP. Thank you. 201.92.176.97 (talk) 17:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
I just noticed this after I removed the {{resolved}} tag. It would be good if you could include more than the tag, and a reason that it is resolved in the actual section. :) Thanks! CTJF83Talk23:57, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm not aware of any significant change in how screen readers process CSS in the past year, but I don't keep up with these things very much. Graham8707:55, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
Great going in your RfA. I was one of the users who was a bit surprised (and angry) by your answer to Q3. But as I reread it, I thought that you have been very truthful unlike few RfA candidates who try to boast their excellent behavior. However, your answer was more apt and correct than the others'. Good luck in your RfA. I am pretty sure it will pass. PmlinediterTalk15:57, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
Hi, I came across you at your RfA earlier, checked your credentials (as you do!) and, you'll be pleased to know, I argued in favour of your adminship. However, just now, through the NP Patrol, I've come across this article, Request for Deviation and I'm rather flummoxed as to what to do with it! It doesn't meet any of the WP:CSD as far as I can tell and I'm reluctant to prod it or send it to AfD, so I thought, since you seem to have an interest in spacey things (excuse the technical term!), I'd bring it to your attention. There seems to be some good information in there, though I'm not familiar enough with that area of wikipedia to say definitively that it's not repeated elsewhwere. So, as an unofficial optional question, I would ask you, what the **** am I suuposed to do with this? If you'd reply here and leave me a talkback I'd be much obliged. Kind regards and good luck with the RfA! HJ MitchellArticulate11:52, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
Your request for adminship has been successful and I have added the extra tools for you. Spend some more time on the admin reading list and be conservative with the tools, particularly blocking, as it is generally better to try to diffuse a situation than hit it with a grenade. Also use the comments in your RfA for self reflection to the extent they can help you be a better administrator and let the rest go. Keep up the good work, I'm sure you'll do well. Again, congrats. - TaxmanTalk21:38, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
From the bottom of my heart, I thank all the people who contributed to my RfA. For a minute I thought I had shot myself in the foot there at Q3, but the community at large understood. I'll do my utmost best to serve Wikipedia to the best of my ability. I don't send out RfA spam, I find that a waste of resources, but truly thanks to everyone. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 00:32, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Congratulations, as I said at the RfA, I'm sure you'll do a good job with it. I shall make a point of bugging you next time I need admin advice! In the meantime, good luck and best wishes, HJ MitchellArticulate03:16, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Aww, I missed your RfA!!! I just noticed your edit to MediaWiki:Common.css, and I thought: "What!? When did TheDJ become admin? He wasn't admin some weeks ago." See, I have noticed your CSS and javascript expertise, and we sure need more admins with that expertise. So since some weeks I have the following ready-written message in my to-do list that I was planning to put on your talk page after I had checked up on you a little more:
Adminship?
Hi TheDJ. I have noticed your excellent work and technical expertise around our CSS and javascript pages. But since you are not yet an admin that hampers your work there. And from what I have seen you are knowledgeable, patient and polite in other areas too. Is it okay if I suggest you to become an admin?
Ah well, I guess I will have to delete that text from my to-do list and do what is left to do:
1: Hit myself in the head for forgetting to put your "future" RfA page on watch, so I won't miss if anyone else nominates you.
2: And say this: Congratulations to your adminship TheDJ! It was long overdue! :))
I know I didn't participate, but congratulations from me, as well! I think Wikipedia will definitely benefit from you having the admin tools now; at the very least, it means you can start directly applying your expertise in CSS and JS (just be sure not to break anything ;) ). 「ダイノガイ千？！」(Dinoguy1000)18:26, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for taking the time to try out my gadget proposal. I have placed some of my comments in the proposals file you made your comments in.
I thought I would tell you that on most browsers you can simply select (up to 500 characters) text, hover the cursor within that text and then the selected phrase is
translated in a popup window.
This works on IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Epiphany. It does not work on Opera and Safari due to their incomplete handling of ranges in javascript.
As to your other concerns, I can change the style (the yellow color) to anything the community wishes. I can also lower the popup window so it does not conflict with the title popups you mentioned. I haven't tried out the WP:POPUP gadget yet but will look at it in the next day or two. Google translation services is a free service. They don't charge for it.
My pitch for the code as a gadget is that there are 1 billion people who read English as a second language. Many of them are intermediate readers in that they can read around 90 percent of an en.wikipedia.org article but need help with 5 to 10 percent of the words. Tens of millions of these people would read English Wikipedia articles. They could use a tool like this. It would be of genuine use to them. I am an intermediate reader of French and Spanish. I use the tool to read French and Spanish articles in Wikipedia. While I can get by mostly in French I actually need the tool's help in Spanish. I'm sure many other people would be in the same boat.
1) the background color of the popup is now beige. It can be set by a variable in monobook.js 2) all variables and function names now have SC prefixed to them 3) when the cursor is over a link with a title the popup now appears below the title (42 pixels lower) 4) when NavPopups are on and the cursor is over a link the popup now appears above the navpopup, that is, above the cursor. Otherwise the popup appears at the cursor as before.
I sent this message to you 2 days ago, but left it in the previous section, so I don't know if you read it.
As per your previous comments I have done the following:
1) the background color of the popup is now beige. It can be set by a variable in monobook.js 2) all variables and function names now have SC prefixed to them 3) when the cursor is over a link with a title the popup now appears below the title (42 pixels lower) 4) when NavPopups are on and the cursor is over a link the popup now appears above the navpopup, that is, above the cursor. Otherwise the popup appears at the cursor as before.
I test for the presence of NavPops by testing for the javascript variable 'popupVersion'. It seems to work well.
Thanks again for trying out the code. From reading your user page I believe you are Dutch. Perhaps nl.wikipedia.org may be interested in this code as a gadget.
Yes, looking a lot better now. Looking at the popup with an inspector however, I still see a lot of hardcoded CSS, and the html is a bit messy as well. The popup really needs a padding of 0.5em or something, because the text is to close to the edges. And if you add a 'x' in the top right to close the window, then I would definitely consider making this a gadget. Well done.
Sorry to bother you again. I made the changes you requested to the Translation Popups last Friday. How do you feel about them now? Please tell me if you want any more changes.
It isn't possible for Qui's functionality to be changed so that it doesn't require an edit (well, it might be possible for someone with an account on the toolserver, but I'm not sure the devs would appreciate that type of use). It should be trivial to allow individuals to set Qui's edits to be minor, though, and it may be an idea to have Qui do this by default. 「ダイノガイ千？！」(Dinoguy1000)17:47, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Qui at Commons
Hi! I have successfully transferred Qui to Wikimedia Commons. Qui.js for example is available here. SkyBonTalk\Contributions 19:40, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
P.S. It seems to have problems with auto-editing the status. When trying to write the page it says: "Your edit has been rejected because your client mangled the punctuation characters in the edit token. The edit has been rejected to prevent corruption of the page text. This sometimes happens when you are using a buggy web-based anonymous proxy service." SkyBonTalk\Contributions19:49, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Orphaned non-free media (File:Carbon Monoxide timings TheDJ 2009-05-18 10-00.jpg)
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Translation Popups Gadget Proposal: Reply 3
Hi there,
Sorry to bother you again. I made the changes you requested to the Translation Popups last Friday. How do you feel about them now? Please tell me if you want any more changes.
Endo999 (talk) 07:11, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Thanks very much for that, Mr TheDJ. I appreciate the time you have spent with the tool, and I hope it becomes useful for some Wikipedians out there. I find it quite useful for reading French Wikipedia articles myself. My french is just intermediate so I don't know all the words.
You can name it anything you like, how about tranlatepopups
It's been a week since you said you would add the Translation Popups as a Gadget.
Is there anything else you want me to do for this to happen. The name can either
be translatepopups or translationpopups or whatever you want. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Endo999 (talk • contribs) 06:28, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
I'm a new user to Wikipedia and I have a question about Qui. When I added one person to my Qui friends then, nobody that I added after that showed up except the first person, when I clicked Qui Friends. Do you know how to fix this? Thanks
I'm currently trying to use it to categorize Hard drive under Category:Disambiguation pages, but it's not working. The category appears in the drop-down menu, and I click on the entry, but when I click on the "OK" button, nothing happens. Could you please look into this, since you created HotCat? →Dylan620 (Toolbox Alpha, Beta) 16:17, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
You cannot do this, because this category is blacklisted. It is one of the categories that you need to add by making use of a template. In this case {{disambig}}. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 18:21, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Hi DJ! I have a request: Would you please edit Template:GA user topicon so that you can choose to have them say either "This user wrote ___, which is a good article." or "This user helped ____ become a good article." (Like the FA top icon template says)? As it is now, when you use that icon, it says you wrote (created) the article, which in probably 99% of the cases, isn't true, the people who help get articles to GA/FA are not likely the same person who actually created the article. I tried to figure out a way to do it, but templates aren't really my forte, lol. ~*Hugs*~ Ariel♥Gold20:25, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
Problems with not just Qui
Excuse me, I am having problems with Qui. Whenever I try to add someone to my QuiFriends list, It doesn't add it, it just opens a file that directs me to my Subpage: User:Veraladeramanera/QuiFriends and I don't know what to do. And it doesn't just happen with Qui, whenever I try to edit ANYTHING on Wikipedia, it opens a file directing me somewhere else. Can you help me with that? Veraladeramanera (talk) 03:07, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
Excuse me, I don't know how to enter a status on my Qui status page, although it seems I did the right thing, since the Qui link I put in didn't turn up as a link, but as a bolded word. Do you know anything about that? Veraladeramanera (talk) 16:17, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
I know you haven't been on much, or atleast when I'm awake
But how would someone add a new status to Qui? Becasue the On and Off Status would apply to me 23/7 (exept during that one hour in which I accually log to sleep) Or it that what busy means? Abce2|Free LemonadeOnly 25 cents!14:12, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
At the moment I'm pre occupied with other freetime activities. when I have time for wikipedia again, I'll look at this —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 15:10, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
Translation Popups Gadget Proposal
Hi there,
On our last communication, over a month ago, you said you would add my Translation Popups javascript code as a gadget on enwiki. You said you needed a name for it and then you would add it. Are you still going to do this, or have you changed your mind? I am aware you have not been spending much time on Wikipedia in the last 2 months. I have put quite a bit of time into this gadget and I think it is a useful addition to the Wiki user interface.
I have simplified the arrangement within the popup window as per Yug's instructions. I believe some of the HTML concerns you had will be alleviated by these changes.
1) removed Close Window link
2) changed ie, English:French to ->French
3) placed the language designator and X on the same top line
4) changed the Source: Google translate page? to just Source: Google
5) I have arranged this above Source link on the right margin at the bottom of the popup
Your explanation would seem to cover it (always nice to know it's not just you with the problem!). Despite what I said, I'm not actually sure it doesn't occur in Firefox - will have to check later. For the record, as I only have two minutes now to get anything done now, my WikEd is in collapsed but enabled mode. Cheers, - Jarry1250[ humorous – discuss ]07:21, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
Translation popup
Copy from my (Yug) talkpage to your (TheDJ) talkpage on Endo999's request :
I have put the pretranslated word in the popup. This only happens for single word lookup. For selected text it still only puts the translation in.
Can you get TheDJ to have another look at my gadget. He said he would put it up but then he would no longer answer any of my messages. I am blacklisted in Australia and I think it spread to him. He was very positive about the tool and then he would no longer respond to any messages.
Endo999 (talk) 07:12, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
Isn't it possible for you to simply search the images of those people on Google and see if they're copyrighted? There are duplicates of them in random places on the web, so it would be very difficult to find their origins. Or is it alright if you put the image on, until someone reports it in violation of copyright (if it actually IS in violation, that is), in which case you may put the old image back on.
I simply found these images through Google Image search. The current image has some people who aren't well-known at all even in Sri Lanka, it's too random and may even appear sexist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Metalnine (talk • contribs) 11:56, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
Hi there, TheDJ! Thought you might be interested in Motto of the Day, a collaborative (and totally voluntary) effort by a group of Wikipedians to create original, inspirational mottos. Have a good motto idea? Share it here, comment on some of the mottos there or just pass this message onto your friends.
there was something in your articles about a nasa dutch scientist . otherewise i just read the dutch papers . Wdl1961 (talk) 12:14, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
"potential load errors due to JS 30 day caching"
Importing a non-existent script causes no errors whatsoever. For example, try adding importScript("thispagedoesnotexist") to your monobook.js. No need to make a mess of the logs by moving, blanking, deleting, undeleting, and deleting again... —Remember the dot(talk)22:15, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
How to add link sidebar toolbox ( Upload file-->Wikipedia:Upload)
Thanks. I see now that I caused the confusion by putting the editrequest on MedalTop, not MedalTableTop. Thanks for figuring out what I really wanted. Eubulides (talk) 14:45, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Deleting image files
Thanks. I would like to delete the file and start again with a new file. I think that would be the easiest solution. How do I delete the file? 3ig-350125 (talk) 15:18, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
I own the original image. It is my own work. I definitely indicated this, or so I thought, when I uploaded it, but obviously not. How can I sort this out retrospectively3ig-350125 (talk) 00:09, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
I am sorry DJ, it is not clear to me how to go about licensing this image. Could you perhaps give me step by step guidance? (It is a miracle I managed to upload it in the first place!) Many thanks. 3ig-350125 (talk) 00:44, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
According to the NPOV, I found the following there:
"Keep in mind that, in determining proper weight, we consider a viewpoint's prevalence in reliable sources, not its prevalence among Wikipedia editors."
By that, does that mean what I think? That regardless that the Megan Fan Boys (and lets not kid ourselves and say that is not what they are, and I don't mean that as a slam, it just means that I think they are going all out to protect Megan because they are fans, which I admit I was too until I saw GI JOE the movie and Sienna Miller). Anyhow, Ive posted sources and two of them (the MSN one and the ABC NEWS one) meet the standards of Wikipedia for Biography of Living People. Those other guys are fighting to keep the paragraph out, and for now I can wait but at the same time, just because they perosnally don't like something (and that is what they are doing) and are claiming Consensus is needed is not the issue: they are objecting to it because they personally don't like it. Just because a lot of people claim they don't want something or that it is not good enough; if it is truely good enough, and lets not kid ourselves, the sources are just fine, that is what is needed for inclusion.
My two cents, I can wait 24 more hours and then put it back but at the same time, at the noticeboard, we need a judgement on it, up or down. Whippletheduck (talk) 01:30, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
No you misinterpret it. It means that the importance of something is determined by how important a reliable source will consider the fact to be. So think of it like this ? If she is 60 years old, and someone writes a 300 page biography on her life so far. Would this event be one of the 15 chapters, or maybe just a page ? That is what determines DUE weight. By spending an entire paragraph on this little fact (regardless of it being "small time news" atm) in this relatively short article, too much emphasis is put on small event in this persons life. That is what it means and nothing else.
Also waiting out the 24h to reset your 3RR is not a way to get around a block. If you are not cooperating and persistently undo'ing the work of multiple others, then you will get blocked regardless. The 3RR rule is a simple point of reference and not the holy grail of "not being blocked". You should be wise not to call anyone fanboy again. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 01:42, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Well I have not reverted anything (yet)since this morning, so I dont see how this is even relevant. But 3RR goes both ways, doesn't it? I've put in a sourced verifiable edit that meets Wikipedia standards so what is stopping me from doing it to them?
And what is wrong with calling them fanboys, I mean it more affectionately then anything else, it is not a flame or slam or anything. I actually have no problem with them doing what they are doing, I mean, when this controversy started when she made the statement, I largely looked the other way and ignored it because i enjoyed looking at Megan enough to look past it. Unfortunately for Megan, Sienna Miller has taken her spot on the cute scale, so now I am more inclined to do what we are supposed to do as editors and put in something relevant.
The fact that people are moving so fast on 3R sounds like they are trying to spike this, which I find rather amusing then anything else
Onto the article issue, under these parameters ANYONE can remove ANYTHING that is not favorable no matter how significant or well sourced it is, and that is against what Wikipedia is about. I can summarize it down to a few sentences, truth be told, but make no mistake: the MSN and ABC NEWS establish sourcability, which is what is needed for biography of living persons. Give Megan more time and she may well make additional statements that warrant an entire controversy section like Brittany Spears of Lindsay Lohan and we will have even more to put in. Whippletheduck (talk) 03:53, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
NAI Global
Hello TheDJ,
I have created a page (Patrick LaForge) and have a basic understanding now of what is needed to make a page. How do I get access to try and create the NAI Global page in such a format as you described?
It works for me in Chrome while just using Vector; I haven't tested under the beta option and probably won't because I don't like having the edit toolbar. 「ダイノガイ千？！」? · Talk⇒Dinoguy100018:47, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
Can all registered users use HotCat? I'm not interested in using it myself; I was just surprised that a relatively newly-registered user could use it for his third edit, especially since that edit was to add a nonexistent category to my talk page. Would it be possible to tweak it to prevent it being used on talk pages? I can't imagine the benefits of having it used on talk pages, although admittedly I don't know much about it. Nyttend (talk) 02:00, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Yes, all users can use javascript and gadgets. And everything is possible, but I rather have "expected" behaviour than "non-understandable" behaviour for the users. I don't think "blocking" it from a certain page will be very helpful. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 11:25, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
Damnit. As you might notice, Accountcreator is the top listed one. I propagated the mistake that was already present in that template. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 12:33, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. You might want to leave the mishyphenated version in the accountcreator template as well as the correct version, as some earlier transclusions of the template may be using it. --GW…12:38, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
I think they will, because they aim to clear this category by giving all the articles their specific template. Yes, let's see what happens. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 12:08, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Could you make a version that only includes Email/PDF? The current version makes it take forever to load a page on Wikipedia because it's calling out to the Share This web site which itself seems to be lagging during the day, thereby causing me to lag. - allstar▼echo 18:26, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
They were upgrading their servers this week. That might be part of the problem. All the elements are rendered by the addthis servers, including the email, print and pdf icons. So it is a bit hard to separate that from the other parts. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:00, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
fr:Main Page
Hello, there's a few time, Antaya has asked you why english and deutsch Wikipedia have a page for mobile, but not the french Wikipedia. You've answered him with a copy of code. You can see it here.
In the purpose of resolve the problem, I've questions for you :
In fact, just ID (mp-tfa & mp-itn) make your code ? In editing mode you can see the code
If the answer is YES, can we juts add new ID as it (see editing mode)
Hey Mr.DJ! Thanks a lot for giving us a hand on fr:... I asked Steph48, who is admin on fr:, to add your ID's suggestions on the main page. The IDs will be : "accueil-lumieresur" and "accueil-actualite". Now the titles (h2) for mobile main page would be : "Lumière sur..." and "Actualités et événements". If you have any questions or comments, feel free to ask. Thnx. Antaya (talk) 21:09, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
Hello, TheDJ. This message is being sent to inform you that there currently is a discussion at Wikipedia:Wikiquette alerts regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
THank you for bringing this to my attention. I see my contribution has no cite and I certainly do not know where I found it. I suppose we ought to delete it. Paul, in Saudi (talk) 10:51, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
Happy TheDJ's Day!
User:TheDJ has been identified as an Awesome Wikipedian,
and therefore, I've officially declared today as TheDJ's day!
For being such a beautiful person and great Wikipedian,
enjoy being the Star of the day, dear TheDJ!
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