User talk:Ilmari Karonen/archives/11

Template:Ambox

To be clear, the edit in question adds top/bottom padding to every transclusion of the template (not merely the ones containing multiple paragraphs). Please test for such issues before implementing any significant changes. —David Levy 02:58, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the cleanup on my userpage. You're right, I'm NOT a Pistol and rifle cartridge. lol. Arthurrh 06:30, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for helping

Thanks for spotting the error in my user-JS example! I've corrected my page with that information. - SigmaEpsilon → ΣΕ 23:37, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks!

Thanks for the barnstar :) That was very kind of you. Chabacano 01:06, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Rewrite

I'm not interested in doing a rewrite of that article. As I said before, that would be reinventing the wheel. Nor am I interested in the subject; I simply don't want to see information senselessly removed from Wikipedia. Thank you for mentioning the AFD, which I was unaware of; I don't understand why Lar didn't mention it, since it seems like it would have helped his case, but maybe he felt that was another state secret. Do you know which other articles were deleted during this purge? Everyking 06:55, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for your offer, Ilmari, even if it was spurned. If the article is important enough, someone will eventually rewrite it. ++Lar: t/c 12:59, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Image:Heatpump.svg

Hi Ilmari,

I would like to suggest a modification to your Heatpump picture: the blue arrow on the right should be a red arrow pointing inwards. The way you drew it, the diagram indicates "coolness" flowing out, whereas it's really heat flowing in (but at a lower temperature than that at which it flows out). --Slashme 08:59, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

The large arrows are actually supposed to indicate airflow across the heat exchangers, with the color scheme being, roughly: white = ambient, red = above ambient, blue = below ambient. The idea of a version with arrows indicating heat flow isn't a bad one, really; but the you'd have to have the arrows pointing into and away from the respective heat exchangers, not across them. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 09:07, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Ah, OK, that makes sense. --Slashme 12:43, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

Warning:Javascript security issue

Hi! I need to inform you that I've protected Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/addLink because it allows users to add code to the javascript of other users. If you are an admin, you are still able to edit it, but if you are not an admin, please copy and paste it into your userspace to continue modifying it. We can set up a message at the old javascript page telling users to change their links. If you need help, please contact me or User:Eagle_101. Thanks, --uǝʌǝsʎʇɹnoɟʇs 00:14, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

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10 messages mostly identical to the above deleted to avoid cluttering the page. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 18:47, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

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Yet another case of thanks

Moi, I just came across Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eric and the Gazebo and wanted to thank you for your reasonable and practical behaviour, giving due respect to the rules while not acting as their slave.

This started resembling a military awards ceremony more than a simple thank-you note, but the fact remains that I want to be like you when I grow up as an admin. Oh, and do you mind if I steal the box on top of this page? --Kizor 03:35, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Wow, thanks. I must say I feel flattered to hear that. Anyway, stealing the box is not only permitted, but encouraged — I've been hoping the things would spread. You're welcome to use it any way you like. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 18:59, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Incorrect revert

You wrote on my user page:

• Eh? What's your point with this revert? —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 20:36, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Looks like i didn't cancel that one in time after all. I was reverting a different page at that time, and hit the wrong rollback button in Lupin, causing a wrong page to rollback. I expected that i canceled this edit in time, but seems i have been mistaken. Sorry for the inconvenience! --Excirial 20:41, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

Invisible bullets

Thanks for your answer , partially successful! I replied here

-Windin22 03:09, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

Apostrobot

Your bot seems to be mis-encoding the page text during its reverts; can you check it to make sure it behaves sensibly with respect to Unicode characters? --ais523 10:48, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

...damn! Thanks for reporting that. I've blocked the bot until I've managed to fix that. (I could've just stopped in, but this way it's at least still generating vandalism reports on my console even if it can't edit.) What's most annoying about this is that it's probably not a bug in my code, but in one of the modules I'm using (either POE::Component::Client::HTTP or HTML::Form). Oh well, time to explore the weird and wonderful world of Perl's Unicode support... —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 11:05, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

OK, I think I've managed to work around the problem: for whatever reason, simply setting $editform->enctype("application/x-www-form-urlencoded") fixes the problem. I have a vague idea of what the real problem is (when using the "multipart/form-data" encoding, MediaWiki, or more likely PHP, expects the bot to tell it what charset the data is in — which HTML::Form is not smart enough to do — and defaults to ISO Latin 1), but for now all that matters is that it works. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 12:08, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

That bot

is impressive - now out of work but never mind :) I'll catch some elsewhere for now - thanks --Herby ^{talk thyme} 18:57, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

Does this bot add warnings ?

It just correctly revereted an edit

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alessandria&diff=next&oldid=168032141

But left no warning. I feel it should do so.

Triwbe 07:28, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Yup, it doesn't add warnings before reporting the users to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism/TB2. It should. utcursch | talk 09:14, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

The vandals it reports are themselves bots (see WP:AN#Beware the Vandalbot), so they're not going to read warnings. I guess I could make it add warnings for the unlikely case where it accidentally mistakes a regular vandal for a bot, but I haven't seen that actually happen yet. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 15:20, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Anyway, Brion's now made a little fix that seems to have stopped the vandalbot that Apostrobot was reverting, so I'm going to be shutting it down soon. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:45, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Estonia et al

Maybe the Estonia/Naissar stuff mentioned in Signpost Tips should be brought to the attention of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Estonia. (SEWilco 20:34, 30 October 2007 (UTC))

I'd already notified them before about the one AfD I was involved in myself, but I just left them a further note pointing to the Signpost tip line. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 21:05, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Bullets again

I could not find the help you gave me with bullets on the Help Desk so I hope you do not kind me asking here... I just wondered if there is any way with list-style-image: URL(path) to make the Wiki display a given image for the bullet (even if it is an image uploaded to the Wiki). I cannot seem to get anything to work. Or would one have to go into the CSS somewhere and make all the bullets look like the desired image? Thanks

--Windin22 06:22, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

No. The problem is that MediaWiki filters out "url(...)" in style attributes. The only way I know of to achieve what you want without modifying the global style sheets is to fake it using tables and/or CSS positioning. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 17:01, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

You could do something like this:

• This list has stars!
• Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
• Nice, isn't it?

The trick is in the "margin: 0 5px 0 -15px;": we know the span is 10px wide, so this moves it 5 pixels off to the left of the paragraph. The relative positioning is just to nudge the image two pixels up to make it look better, and could be avoided by a more careful choice of image. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 17:39, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the template fix

Thanks so much for fixing my {{Badimage}} templates on the various "Giveit" images. It did seem a little silly to give "such as in an article about human anatomy or physiology" as an example! — Satori Son 06:35, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

A Wikipedia meetup in Helsinki?

Hello! Are you interested in a meetup for contributors of the English language Wikipedia in Finland? If so, please comment at Wikipedia:Meetup/Helsinki (and, of course, invite other Wikipedians you know who might be interested). Cheers, --KFP (talk | contribs) 11:51, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

MY subpage

Its nice to see that your actualy going for a disscusion but i really didnt care that it was deletedEsskater11 17:49, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

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