User talk:Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason/Archive 1

Special:Editcount

Where can i get the Special:Editcount extension? Dvyjones^t·c·e 15:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Never mid, I found it on CVS Dvyjones^t·c·e 16:37, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Image:Ævar_Arnfjörð_Bjarmason's_desktop.png listed for deletion

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Special:Version

In one wiki i try to run (www sarkotube com), I don't understand why the Special:Version is empty, and find no explication on that. But I find you contribute a lot to this special page. So I apologise to disturb you with such question...but if you can help me...I enjoy. Best regards. --Eric Larcher 17:09, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

Unspecified source for Image:Gordon_Freeman_-_Valve_Concept_Art_-_Walking_with_a_crowbar_-_cropped.jpeg

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Orphaned non-free image (Image:Invisible Pink Unicorn Logo.png)

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Template:Linebreak

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Please change my name in MediaWiki

Please change my name in MediaWiki from Edmundkh to EdmundEzekielMahmudIsa, then leave me a message in my talk page here. Thanks a lot! --Edmund the King of the Woods! 05:08, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

Your milky skin

Found your skin, and I love it. I had to adapt it to get the radius border corners to work on Safari, but one i did that, beautiful. See my diff for the Safari specifics. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:54, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

Labeling equations

I don't know where else to post this & I thought you'd know best what to do with it.

http://www.mwusers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5414

It's based on your cite.php. If there's a better place to post it please tell me. I'd especially like any improvements. Blind was Mingson 22:06, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Re: MediaWiki editing window extension - buttons

Don't mean to bother you but I have looked around for a while for the answer to this question and I can't find it. Wondering if you might be able to help: I use the MediaWiki software on my school network for collaborative research projects with students and it works perfectly. However, I cannot find the extension that adds the extra ten editing shortcut buttons that appear to the right of the "horizontal line" button. These are visible in Wikipedia's edit window. Is there an extension for that or was this a custom coded bit of php added to Wikipedia...? Any guidance would be much appreciated. Thanks! κaτaʟaveno^T_C 14:30, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Medical slang

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Hi

Hello,

I'm a user of an oen of your extension (Page CSS). I would say that is a great extension... But I have a problem I hope some help. But I prefer that you explain me in the extension page because It'll maybe help some user later. here. And I would say too, that if you a translator for your futur extension I can do it.(in french).Thanks.

Your sincerely , Add. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.66.151.63 (talk) 23:33, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Mac OS X Box.jpeg

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Image deletion

The image you requested deletion for is on wikimedia commons. I have listed Commons:Deletion requests/Image:Island states.PNG for you. —Random832 15:07, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Oops, I should have spotted that, thanks. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:39, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

The discussion was closed as Keep. —Random832 17:35, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Mediawiki version 1.10 problem with cite.php

I placed the " require_once( $IP.'/extensions/Cite/Cite.php' ); " on the line preceding the ending "?>" marker. What I noticed was that a page simply did not render at all when it had a <ref> text </ref> and <references/> tag. I have checked the file permissions on the extensions subfolder and files, and they appear correct. So this appears to be a bug, either in the extension or the instructions about installing the extension.

Is there a problem with version 1.10? I followed the instructions from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite/Cite.php thanks Douglas R. White (talk) 18:09, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

Disputed fair use rationale for Image:Banjo-Kazooie - Gruntilda's laughter.ogg

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Speedy deletion of Template:Video Games

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AfD nomination of Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ20

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List of TCP and UDP port numbers

Moved to Talk:List of TCP and UDP port numbers. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 20:47, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

Response from Boracay Bill (talk)

Hi. I responded here to the message you left on my talk page. Cheers. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 06:17, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Scripts

I posted a request at Wikipedia:Scripts. You last posted there in 2005, but could you please look at my request? Thanks. GregManninLB (talk) 16:08, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

I can't help you with this issue. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 16:37, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Drawn Togather Redirect listed for Deletion

It's up here Munci (talk) 10:49, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Markup in references

I've run into a problem in Cite.i18n.php that you may be able to help me with. I'm running some experiments to create print-quality PDF documents from Wikipedia. In the current markup in the generated list of references, visible markers (^, a, b etc.) are added to allow users to click their way back to the source of the reference. In print, however, these markers should not be visible. Given the current markup, it's impossible to remove the markers by way of CSS as there is no wrapper element around them. I therefore suggest adding a "span" element with a class name of "to-reference" or something so that one could remove these markers when printing the document. Howcome (talk) 20:30, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Black Mesa Research Facility

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Please pay attention to this matter

Hello sir, we need your tech supports. Please see: Bugzilla:14216. Thank you in advance.--百楽兎 (talk) 11:06, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

I didn't write the group feature. Contact whoever did and tell them to fix their shoddy unicode support. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 18:49, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Cite.php

Hi,

I believe that you are the "keeper" of cite.php, though that is probably an incomplete understanding of cite.php ownership.

I would like to propose a cite.php enhancement to provide functionality similar to what I previously proposed with Bugzilla:12796. However, I would like to avoid the frustrating experience I had with Bugzilla:12796, which was apparently roundly ignored (see the comments on Bugzilla:12796).

Since I submitted Bugzilla:12796 (including code to implement it) cite.php has had support for group="group ID" added to it, invalidating the Bugzilla:12796 code. How would I properly propose a cite.php extension -- either in the form of a discussion to evolve requirements or in the form of a presumption of requirements and code to implement support for those presumed requirements? Did I miss doing some crucial step with Bugzilla:12796?

Thanks for any info. -- Boracay Bill (talk) 03:06, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikinews has been hacked

[1] has been hacked with a message saying: "This is the Zodiac speaking. Do you think you cowards can run from me? No you cannot, for I am above mortal things. ЕНКЁШКААНЛЁПЕЦЦААЭАН ДАЛЫЧЫНВКЁШКАШЕАНЦА АМЫНЮЛЛЕЯЬЦЦЫМЬЫНЕ НКЫЫЪЕХЦЫЬЕНДЁЪПХЫ НЦЕХЁККААМПЫАКЮЫНКЁ ЛМЕЦЮХАЦЦАЁЪВАШМЕЯ АШЕЁННЫЫНХАЮШКААШ ЫНЮНПЫЦЬЫШЫЙЪЫЦЦ ЬЬЦЕХДЬШЕНПЙШЬККЫЁ НЦЙПЕЪЫЬШЫКЁЯА! " and more not included. Please notify the appropriate person. This is message is going to all system admins. Calebrw (talk) 04:58, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Plain old template vandalism, nothing to worry about. -- Tim Starling (talk) 05:27, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Linking dates

Wikipedia no longer links dates. From WP:UNLINKDATES:

The linking of dates purely for the purpose of autoformatting is now deprecated.

∴ Therefore cogito·sum 01:46, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Footnotes, clustered links

Dear Ævar, I have been irked by the lack of a few features in your Cite extension, which is otherwise very solid and useful. I spent yesterday afternoon checking out MW and coding it up. I have added two features:

• Support for nice footnote symbols. If you create a group called "footnote", you get a nice progression of *†‡ symbols etc. This is neat and works well, and should be pretty un-controversial.
• Secondly, and more majorly, I have built a parser stage that globs links to notes together. It maps [1][2][nb 3][5][nb 5][6][nb 4][7] ↦ [1,2,5-7,nb 3-nb 4] (an obviously extreme example to show the scheme). In general, the most common case is [13][14][15] ↦ [13-15], a large improvement. All links and things work nicely.
• There were a couple of spots in your code where you mentioned potential problems with the whole id-choosing scheme. There were indeed tricksy things you could do to break the old code by choosing group names with strategically placed hyphens. I have reworked the ref storing system and naming scheme slightly, so I think that my new code should be a little more robust to corner cases.

Now, the only things that might be controversial (after suitable testing of course) are that I have added a few extra regular expressions, but I think they are pretty quick ones. I have not benchmarked, but I think it should all be fine. I have it working nicely on my local machine, but I do not have a live test to demonstrate it.

I do not intend to contribute regularly to WM, so I do not plan on getting commit access or anything, so could you manage this for me? I have put the patch up at User:Kan8eDie/citepatch, but this may be against an older version, so I have put the whole files up at User:Kan8eDie/citebody, User:Kan8eDie/citeil8n. The documentation is not thorough, so I am happy to explain anything. Having spent half of yesterday afternoon on it, I would quite like to see it eventually used, if only as an optional feature.

Best wishes, Kan8eDie (talk) 11:55, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Further comment: I have just found the talk page on meta, and read through it. It seems I am not alone to have had some of these ideas, and that there are more good thoughts, though most of them well out of date. Hidden refs in particular would be particularly trivial to add (the ability to mark a named link 'hidden', so that no link appears where the ref tag is placed). I could post the relevant one-liner here if people are interested. Sub-references, while a very nice idea, seem a bit too complicated and of questionable use, given the perfectly good distinctions that can be made with current systems.—Kan8eDie (talk) 13:32, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Hello, I don't maintain the cite extension anymore, please file bugs in http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org and take this up in the appropriate MediaWiki forums (which I don't even know what are anymore, probably wikitech-l), thanks and sorry. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:54, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Your image has been nominated

A picture that you uploaded

Phobos

has been nominated for fpc status at Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Phobos.

Congrats! --Fireaxe888 (talk) 17:20, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

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Cite.php extension

Hi,

Your name is on the "Cite extension" page on MediaWiki : http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Cite thus I'm contacting you. There are a number of "new" bugs in the wikimedia bugzilla system regarding this extension (including one I reported that should not take more than a few minutes to correct) and they don't seem to get any attention.

Am I writing to the right person? Can you please have a look?

Best regards. Bub's (talk) 16:14, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

Please see the notice at the top of this talk page. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 23:18, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

Hi,

Sorry to disturb you again. Any idea on who's following the bugs filed ? This one https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19303 is in state NEW since several months now.

Best regards, -- Bub's (talk) 12:56, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

I don't know who's mostly taking care of cite bugs now. It seems mostly orphaned, unfortunately. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:03, 1 October 2009 (UTC)

POTD notification

POTD

Hi Ævar,

Just to let you know that the Featured Picture File:Phobos colour 2008.jpg is due to make an appearance as Picture of the Day on August 20, 2009. If you get a chance, you can check and improve the caption at Template:POTD/2009-08-20. howcheng {chat} 04:07, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

OpenStreetMap integration with MW

Hey Ævar,

I'd like to discuss the current plans to integrate OpenStreetMap with MediaWwiki with you as soon as possible. This is cause I wrote Maps and Semantic Maps (as part of my GSoC project for Wikimedia Foundation, mentored by Yaron Koren), and they are most likely a better choice then SlippyMap, since they are not limited to OpenLayers, and support many features SlippyMap does not. This is urgent, cause people might be doing work, or will do work, that already has been done, or will become obsolete.

Please contact me by email if possible (jeroendedauw -at- gmail -dot- com).

Cheers -- Jeroen De Dauw (talk) 15:03, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Template:Fact check

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Orphaned non-free image File:Icelandic Mountain Guides.jpeg

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Request for assistance

Hello, if you know how to handle shell requests at Bugzilla, can you take a look at Bug #21676, which is to close the Simple English Wikiquote. A discussion at meta has recently been closed with the consensus to close the project. It would be really nice if you or somebody could get this taken care of as soon as possible.

You can reply at my email, scrahan81@yahoo.com. Thanks. 96.229.79.81 (talk) 23:18, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

I'm not touching that with a 10 foot pole, thanks :) --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 18:46, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

I do not understand what you're saying. Can you explain straightforward? 71.104.88.239 (talk) 22:09, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

That I don't wish to get involved in contributing negatively to other people's contributions, namely closing down projects. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:18, 20 December 2009 (UTC)

Appropedia assistance

Hey, I was wondering whether you are interested in joining Appropedia; we currently need someone with experience in the wiki-software; see http://www.appropedia.org/User_talk:Chriswaterguy#Members More precisely, we need to add some extensions/semantic updates to automate a few things (ie member listing, ...). Let me/us know if you're intrested or if you know someone that might be intrested. User:KVDP|KVDP (at wikipedia) 10:44, 13 February 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.136.150.185 (talk)

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Thank you. DASHBot (talk) 17:39, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

AHLGH A ROBOT THE MACHINES ARE TAKING OVER. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 03:30, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

File:000000 Bullet.png listed for deletion

A file that you uploaded or altered, File:000000 Bullet.png, has been listed at Wikipedia:Files for deletion. Please see the discussion to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. Blurpeace 01:34, 15 April 2010 (UTC)

Bárðarbunga/ Grímsvötn

Theoretically, this is english wikipedia with an english keyboard only ;) --Chris.urs-o (talk) 14:11, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

It isn't. It's not customary on the English Wikipedia to transliterate names so that they fit in the ASCII range. See the relevant pages on article naming conventions. --Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason 15:14, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Icelandic pronunciation check (Eyjafjallajökull)

Hello, Ævar. I saw that you made a few comments at Talk:Eyjafjallajökull about the Icelandic language and pronunciation. I thought you might be a native speaker of Icelandic and would like to ask your help. Several people have requested a more clearly enunciated recording of the name of the volcano; would you mind reviewing this audio recording for its acceptability as a pronunciation example for this article? If you would prefer to make your own recording, that would also be great. Thanks! —Ka-Ping Yee (talk) 17:29, 20 April 2010 (UTC)