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 Omega34 21:27, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

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#REDIRECT Star Trek#Cultural impact.

The user is sent a HTTP redirect to "en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_Star Trek#Cultural_impact"
This time MediaWiki sees the #Cultural_impact bit in the URL
This is the bit that won't work — MediaWiki doesn't see that bit, since it's not sent to the server.  —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 08:53, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
The Stat Trek page loads up and this time the browser will go down to the Cultural impact because #Cultural impact is in the URL

This doesn't work because MediaWiki redirects don't actually HTTP redirect, they just transclude the page contents to the current location, so the URL cannot magically have a # appended to it, for the browser to notice. In order for it to work, fundamental things would have to be changed in MediaWiki. Some methods that might do it:
Links to redirects containing # would have the # and target appeneded. But, the redirects would then have to invalidate the cache of any page linked to them when they were edited (nasty, something for the job queue maybe).
Real HTTP redirects (302, meta refresh, etc) could be used, but I believe there are security issues with this (or were, last time I asked about this).
Javascript.
A # link added to contentSub (which shows a standard "Redirected from" message). Example: If [[Foo]] is a redirect to #REDIRECT:[[Bar#Foo]], then clicking a link to [[Foo]] could generate something like: Redirected from Foo. The Section you want is probably [[#Foo]]
The best thing to do at the moment, is replace all the links to [[Cultural impact of Star Trek]] with [[Star Trek#Cultural impact|Cultural impact of Star Trek]] as it is unlikely to require a stand alone article anytime soon. --Splarka (rant) 07:23, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

The pipe trick now works with commas!

And the reverse pipe trick is semi-useful here too...  when editing the Richmond, Virginia article, you can type [[|Roanoke]] and it will expand to [[Roanoke, Virginia|Roanoke]].  --Interiot 20:50, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Mozilla censored

It redirects to Google for me, and I'm in Britain. The mozilla site still works, http://www.mozilla.org. Alan Pascoe 13:28, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Ref Desk - Science

I assume you mean this link. Seems to be working fine. Antonrojo 14:08, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Searching for a category

Instead of entering "British science fiction films", enter "Category:British science fiction films". -- Hoary 04:16, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Anon: That's a good point since currently users need to know that the category exists to search under "Category:whatever" or they stumble upon the category by clicking on the category link below one of it's members. Since categories neatly organize a variety of content, bumping them up to the top of the results would make sense to me since they have the highest signal-to-noise ratio. I suggest making a formal proposal for this if it hasn't been done and this isn't listed as a wikipedia bug. Antonrojo 14:00, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

re downloading an earlier version of an article

Wikipedia, completely compressed, with no edit history (i.e. not a March 2002 version of a page) is about a gigabyte, all 7zipped at extremely high compression.  With edit histories, its more like 6 gigabytes.  With images, you'll probably need a few hundred gigabytes. — Dark Shikari ^talk/_contribs 17:17, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
You might try Special:Export and just grab what article you need, it should be able to export the full history of a page. Then see m:Wiki_on_a_stick. --Splarka (rant) 07:04, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

WP usage statistics

If you read the linked FAQ at the top you'd see there there are no page hit counters. Accurate bandwidth statistics are limited to total wikimedia usage. However, there are some things you can look at: Special:Mostlinked and Special:Mostrevisions (when they are working) give some good indications of popularity, and LeonWP has set up a top 100 counter for some Wikimedia projects (like this one), which use a fractional sampling rate via javascript. --Splarka (rant) 07:17, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
Check out WP:S for an overview. Antonrojo 13:41, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

what the heck image license tag do I use....

The site seems to have a copyright notice on the bottom of every page, and they apparently take "donated" photos.  You could try sending them an email asking about the copyright status of their images, but it looks to me like the copyright status of the images on this site is murky (at best).  Wikipedia must have clear copyright status, so unless you can get something definitive from the folks at this site (like they add a copyright page declaring "all images on this site are public domain" or something) I'd recommend you not upload any of them. -- Rick Block (talk) 03:02, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Stalling, breaking up & downloads

Maybe a donation to Wikimedia Foundation would be in order? The user base for wikipedia has shot up quickly and I suspect that the server infrastructure hasn't quite kept up with some of the heavier loads this creates. Considering the budget they operate under and that they only have five fulltime employees, it's pretty amazing that the site functions as well as it does. Antonrojo 13:38, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Map resources not available

It is working for me. --cesarb 10:49, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Contents Box

I fixed the table of contents on Sativa Hybridz, but the article got deleted. It's best not to write about yourself and try to stick to things that are more notable. Tra (Talk) 15:16, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
For future refrence, how did you fix the table of contents?--Dreamm 18:20, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
There was an unclosed <table> tag that I removed Tra (Talk) 18:54, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Spelling suggestions when searching?

See bugzilla:974. Feature exists but is disabled for performance reasons. This is a perennial proposal. Use Google with site:en.wikipedia.org as a workaround. — Edward Z. Yang^(Talk) 23:54, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Reference

Well, hopefully the div situations you see are like, for example,  <div class="references-small"> ... </div>.  A div without any attributes is a no op.  That could arise from successive not-fully-understood edits.  — EncMstr 04:23, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
A <div> tag is just HTML-speak for 'insert a line break' and it also be formatted as EncMstr alludes to. I'm not sure what the code that user lists does. HTML formatting is rarely used in wiki pages so I'd just delete it. Antonrojo 13:33, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

What to do about spammer?

If it's a big enought problem you can request adding the link to m:Spam blacklist wich will prevent it from beeing inserted again. Not quite sure what the inclution criterea is though, might be easier to just sprotect the page for a little while. --Sherool (talk) 11:22, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Mr. Jeff, the advice by Sherool is the way to go if normal vandal action fails. First, I'd try reverting the changes as vandalism and adding the proper WP:UTM templates...and if appropriate requesting a block at WP:AIV. Antonrojo 13:29, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
wikipedia and wiki quote....

math symbols & pictures problem

MARKUP CRISIS: NEW http://wikipedia.org/ INTIAL PAGE MISSING SEARCH BUTTON IN SOME BROWSERS

What happend to watermark image id="EnWpMpBook2"?

Image question

It seems to be displaying correctly to me. If you get these sorts of problems, try purging the image (e.g. for this image, you would visit http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:WIMap-doton-Chippewa_Falls.png&action=purge) and clearing your cache. Tra (Talk) 22:24, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
I tried the purge and cache thing earlier and multiple times. It now appears to be working, maybe the purge took time to work. I tried it maybe 15 min before I posted this. Sorry for the bother. --Dual Freq 22:30, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Laaaag!

Browser
The browser was unable to promote itself to master browser.  The computer that currently believes it is the master browser is [NAME].
NetBT
The name "MSHOME         :1d" could not be registered on the Interface with IP address 192.168.1.65. The machine with the IP address 192.168.1.66 did not allow the name to be claimed by this machine.
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Those event log messages are related to Windows local-area networking and the "Network Places" network browser, not your web browser. Zetawoof^(ζ) 21:27, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Saving index.php problem?

You have choosen to open

index.php

which is a: php-file

from: http://sv.wikipedia.org

Would you like to save this file?

You have choosen to open

Special:Recentchanges

which is a: application/octet-stream

from: http://sv.wikipedia.org

Would you like to save this file?

You need to disable "Use external editor" in your preferences. -- Lost^(talk) 11:44, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been seeing the same sporadic problem in IE, and have been assuming it is some sort of problem at Wikipedia's end.  (PS. In reply to Lost, I do not use an external editor.)  Dragons flight 11:50, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
If bugzilla:1109, this should be fixed again as of a few minutes ago. --brion 22:38, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
I've got the same problem. The section is here.
For all you people getting 'download file' messages with Firefox or IE

If bugzilla:1109, this should be fixed again as of a few minutes ago. --brion 22:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Baroque Architecture

It's been deleted now.  For instructions on how to remove vandalism in the future, see Help:Reverting. —Mets501 (talk) 15:07, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Messed up <ref> citations in Hiralal Sen - help needed

Fixed a botch. References must be defined on first occurrence. Current implementation of the m:cite.php extension requires this. --Ligulem 12:26, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Are all images on USA government web sites in public domain?

Most are, but some are not.  Some are licensed works that the government site uses.  You need to check out the licensing listed on the page or on the home page of the site.  User:Zoe|(talk) 02:00, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
DOE labs are often run by contractors rather than regular federal employees.  As a result almost none of the content from some DOE lab sites is in the public domain.  See Template_talk:PD-USGov-DOE for more on that issue.  Dragons flight 02:15, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
Need help with code

To show other people these links, you could use {{vandal}} which, when you put {{vandal|Tra}} gives Tra (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · nuke contribs · logs · filter log · block user · block log).
To see these links when someone else links to a user page, you could use popups where you will be able to hover over the link to the user page to get a list of accociated links. Tra (Talk) 21:31, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanx! The popup code works really neatly! MoRsE 00:27, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
New Template?

Incomplete reversions

Sengkang's reverts [16][17] at argon (page history)
JoeSmack's revert [18] at mercury (element) (page history)

What I think it might be is that, taking taking the JoeSmack example, the last vandal edit (changing the Hatting section) was actually made after the revert (which is why JoeSmack's edit summery says he reverted 2 edits). Because the two edits were made so close together, MediaWiki for some reason made an error with the timing and put them in the wrong order. I've seen this happen with bots such as User:AntiVandalBot as well, which also reverts pages very quickly after the vandal edit. Tra (Talk) 18:04, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
For reference, the exact timestamps (with seconds included) can be found here and here. I don't think the revisions are just in the wrong order: every revision is attached the editor name, so this would imply that JoeSmack has saved a page with vandalism on it. Tizio, Caio, Sempronio 21:05, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Sucrose Solubility in Propylene Glycol

Try asking at the Reference desk. Tra (Talk) 18:07, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia Project Assessments/Bots

Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Index is where most discussion about Mathbot's assessment work wakes place. --Salix alba (talk) 01:10, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
nepali pages needs more care

Could you list some pages?  There is a procedure to tag an article as needing work but we need to first realize which page needs work.  Thank you. RJFJR 16:06, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
I think he's talking about pages in the Nepali language. There aren't exactly a lot of people who speak Nepali here on the English wiki. Suggest recruiting those who speak it and are interested in wikis to fix the Nepali wiki pages. Rlevse
Users who speak Nepali can be found at Category:User ne. Starting your search there might help. EVula 19:20, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Favorites?

That's what del.icio.us and other "bookmark sharing" sites do, I think we should stick to just making a ensyclopedia. --Sherool (talk) 12:12, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
You can always wikilink to favourite articles from your user page or talk page. DuncanHill 17:48, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
I add them to my watchlist, so that some time later they appear for me and I am reminded of why I searched for them in the first place. This also solves my habit of adding things to a favourites list and then never looking at them again. —Daniel (‽) 20:44, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Metatags

As with most operations, MediaWiki works via a combination of sweat, blood and tears, and the enslavement, torture and forced labour of thousands of magical creatures, including but not limited to, pixies, fairies, gnomes, cute little squirrels and decapitated trout. The trout have the most important job; they are responsible for rendering the edit buttons. 164.11.204.56 04:28, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Very funny. Now, does anyone knows how MediaWiki creates metatags? ≈ jossi ≈ t • @ 16:41, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
It doesn't create a description metatag AFAICT. The keyword metatag is simply a collection of all outbound internal links from the page. (I don't know this for certain; this is a guess based on the HTML source code for this page now and other HTML sources I remember.) --ais523 17:34, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Actually, I think it does. For example, take a look at the Google result for jew (it's the first thing I thought of). Under the Wikipedia link result is the text "Discussion of the difference between Jewish religion and ethnicity, with notes on the Jews' history, beliefs, and culture.". I assume that this is created by the MediaWiki software. —Daniel (‽) 20:53, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
In case you think this is only for popular articles, if you look up lemur the text reads "Encyclopedia gives a brief description of the physical traits of this animal.". It does sound computer-generated, but I'm interested in how the software does it. —Daniel (‽) 20:57, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
But, it seems elephant doesn't. Bizarre. —Daniel (‽) 20:58, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Where does article go on a #REDIRECT?

When you get redirected to another article, there is a small link to the original article under the topic name. Click that, which will take you to the original page. From there, you can see the history. EVula 01:49, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
You mean here?[19]? But I still can't figure out how to get any information on the Parchman Farm article. Mattisse(talk) 04:04, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Hmm, well that is what I was talking about. When did you write it? It seems like it was deleted (and then the redirect was created), but it doesn't look like there was an AfD; you'd need an admin to check to see if there's a deleted version sitting around in the history somewhere. EVula 05:23, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
There doesn't appear to be any article history for Parchman Farm before it was a redirect, there are no deletes or moves for the article that I can see, nor can I find any previously deleted revisions to view, however browsing your editing history I note that you've edited Parchman (which you created here, and there are links there to legal cases. Is there any chance you were thinking of the wrong article? Hopefully that's of some help to you. ~Kylu (u|t)  05:28, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Underlined links

There's an option on the preferences. --cesarb 21:14, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
please check the article Royall Tyler (academic)

I checked the history and I don't see references to Richard Davis.  The only explanation is some kind of cache error.  If that is what happened, it has cleared up. RJFJR 16:09, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
I went through the history myself, and saw no sign of the mysterious edits, yet it was in the version that I saw earlier. I refreshed my own cache, so it must have been on the server side, or at least, not on my end. In any case, it's gone now. Thanks for looking into it. --Kyoko 17:11, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
The information was added in  this edit  to template:academic-bio-stub. It wasn't completely reverted until 3 hours and 32 minutes later with  this edit . Graham87 05:19, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
Larger text

I once had the same. Check out your preferences. Try also to click View, find the font size option and change it. --Brand спойт 20:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
You can also check "View" > "Text Size" in IE.  ---J.S (t|c) 18:35, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, that worked--Andy mci 16:42, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
How do you remove the "+" tab at the top of a talk page?

according to Help:Magic words, this is impossible --schlendrian •λ• 10:59, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Rather than remove the "+", there's a way using CSS to create a footer that is not physically at the bottom (which I first saw on a version of user:Interiot's talk page).  I've done this with your footer. -- Rick Block (talk) 14:17, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
cvs.sourceforge.net should not be used any longer

As per our document on CVS usage, https://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=29894&group_id=1, cvs.sourceforge.net should not be used any longer. (ref: [20])

cvs.sourceforge.net
It looks like the majority of the 151 links can remain the same because they are on article talk pages, user talk pages and archived pages of various types, where it is not that important that the links won't work. I am kind of puzzled why many of the links were made in the first place. Does Wikipedia have some kind of connection with SourceForge? Also, has it become common knowledge amongst open source software writers that a good way to promote your software is to create a Wikipedia article on it, do we just have an incredible amount of open source software enthusiasts at Wikipedia or is there another explanation for the enormous number of SourceForge software articles? -- Kjkolb 11:33, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
A huge number of highly notable projects are on SourceForge, and are thus represented also on Wikipedia. — Dark Shikari ^talk/_contribs 14:54, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Image:F11-tiger.jpg

Template:Navigation

Inline citations – software?

Something like this: (diff) ? (SEWilco 05:39, 3 November 2006 (UTC))
I agree that at first they seem tedious and unproductive.  However, after doing 4-5 articles, it stopped seeming so difficult.  Now a minimal citation of <ref> {{cite web | url = URL | title = TITLE }} rolls off finger tips with ease.  One thing which helps me to keep track of things is to format the wikitext for readability:
Some long statement of fact needing a citation.<ref name="deis"> {{cite web
 | url = http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/mthood/projects/timberline-express/Appendices/Appendix%20G%20-%20Timberline%20Mountain%20Specifications%20Summary/Appendix%20G%20-%20Timberline%20Mountain%20Specifications%20Summary.pdf
 | title = Appendix G: Timberline Mountain Specifications Summary of Draft Environmental Impact Statement for The Timberline Express Proposal
 | format = pdf
 | pages = 2, 8
 | publisher = [[United States Forest Service|USFS]]
 | date = March 2005
 | accessdate = 2006-09-18
}} </ref>  Next statement of fact, probably needing citations as well....

(This example is from Magic Mile, an article I generously cited.)  — EncMstr 06:03, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Bigger category should list all subcategories on first page

I agree. At the moment, to force this, you have to find all the subcategories and pipe sort them to the front by using '*' or ' ' or something similar. In some of the larger catgories, it is quite possible that some subcategories are genuinely lost. Carcharoth 01:25, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
I agree as well, and since so many of the categories already use the piping "workaround", I wonder if this wouldn't be something that would be a valued change to the software. Who would we ask? - jc37 01:31, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
I'd raise it on the technical area of the village pump. I'll do that now. Carcharoth 10:36, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Vote for Mediazilla:1211, and/or bug someone who's good with MySQL optimization to submit/commit a patch for it. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 01:06, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
Experiencing some problems

When you see that happen, try refreshing the page. It might be a problem with the network. Tra (Talk) 18:42, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Which OS is it?  Which wikipedia skin?  Assuming you're using monobook, that article uses some fractionally sized fonts (1.3 em, and 90%) and, curiously, xx-small, whatever that is.  Perhaps your machine is unable to do font scaling, or doesn't have.  Another possibility is that somehow it is being rendered white on white.  After it finishes rendering a blank page, can you select anything?  Can you paste it?  — EncMstr 21:07, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
My OS is Windows ME and I am using the default skin, MonoBook. Yes, after it finishes rendering a blank page, I can go back to the previous page or my home page. --Siva1979^{Talk to me} 01:09, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
SVG help

How do I archive?

See WP:ARCHIVE --Ligulem 00:49, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
LocalSettings.php

/w/LocalSettings.php, but it's not accessible to anyone without shell access. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 06:15, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thumbnails keep disappearing for this image, very weird, help appreciated

I've noticed the same thing happening with several images.  Take a look at the gallery on my user page for example, one of the images there does that.  The other day I was in the article on halloween and one of the images was like that.  I don't know what's causing it, but you aren't the only one experiencing it. ~ ONUnicorn (Talk / Contribs) 16:40, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Headline as edit summary

You could try using the code in Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Scripts/Force edit summary in your monobook.js but swapping the line
if(/&section=new/.test(window.location.href)) return;

for
if(!/&section=new/.test(window.location.href)) return;

Tra (Talk) 18:04, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Thanks, but didnt work... Any other suggestion? -- Lost^(talk) 08:42, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
I filled a bug: bugzilla:7788 Tizio, Caio, Sempronio 11:59, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Rendering of character with ümlaut

Links to anchors get a weird form.
On IE the characters are rendered in a different font, making them look like bold in subtitles. (Note the ü in the subtitle above; it is not bold though it may look like it.)

Wikipedia has been UTF-8 based with links using UTF-8 values for some time so that shouldn't be related to any recent changes. Looking at the source of that page i can't find anything unusual about the characters in that subtitle nor do they render oddly in IE for me. Plugwash 08:08, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Links to anchors that you manually add can be typed normally.  For instance, #Rendering of character with ümlaut works: it's autoconverted to point to "#Rendering_of_character_with_.C3.BCmlaut".  It's illegal to put anything other than a subset of ASCII into anchor names at present, and we can't even use normal percent encoding, so we made up something using periods.  Wikimedia sites haven't used any encoding other than UTF-8 in text for at least a year now, I believe. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 06:13, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
The subtitle text appears four times in the HTML source text
Twice in the <a ... > anchor
name=".C3.BCmlaut"
id=".C3.BCmlaut"
Twice in the <h2> header
<span class="mw-headline">Ã¼mlaut</span>
title="Edit section: Ã¼mlaut"
There is no reason why the <h2> header text should be anything but 8-bit ISO/IEC 8859-1. Using UTF-8 is of course a good reason :-)
Anyway, something has changed since yesterday, the Ü in the subtitle no longer looks bold. Today, the source for the ü is Ã¼". I am not quite sure what it was yesterday, as I may have just looked at the 2 first ones, and missed the <h2> text.
The issue may have something to do with the rendering of ;Uuml and ;Auml on some browsers. On IE they sometimes use a different font from Ü and Ä, making their appearence bold. It may of course also be a temporary problem in my browser.  -- Petri Krohn 06:53, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
P.S. "Ã¼mlaut" is naturally what you see when viewing the HTML source text in a 8-bit text editor. I guess it would look like ü on an UTF-8 text editor. -- Petri Krohn 07:07, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Image Positioning (complex)

Put them in mini-tables. Adding that trick to the help page. Adam Cuerden ^talk 00:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
edit function in COTM template

thanks for the help it actually shows as the second word ie "assessment&action=edit edit it" so it's picking up the second word— Rod ^talk 23:24, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
User:Ligulem seems to have done it by the use of [{{fullurl:{{nursing article}}|action=edit}} editing]. Thanks — Rod ^talk 23:27, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Yup. Fixed. {{fullurl: }} does the trick ([21], [22]). --Ligulem 23:29, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Heh. Figures. Just when I had found the right help page. Still! Glad it's all fixed up =) Adam Cuerden ^talk 23:30, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
For future reference, {{fullurl: }} only escapes the spaces in the first parameter (always title=). If the parameter is not the title (what links here, related changes), you can use the {{urlencode:}} magic word.
Example, say you want to create a link in a template to the block log for blocked usernames -> "{{fullurl:Special:Log/block|user=User:{{{1}}} }}". This won't work with spaces in the name like "Willy on Wheels" (unless they are manually underlined) as you'd get: "//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&user=User:Willy on Wheels", so what you can do is escape it with: "{{fullurl:Special:Log/block|user=User:{{urlencode:{{{1}}}}} }}", giving you "//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/block&user=User:Willy+on+Wheels"
Also, the magic words for page name like {{PAGENAME}} {{FULLPAGENAME}} etc all have 'escaped' versions: {{PAGENAMEE}} {{FULLPAGENAMEE}} etc. These are useful to know when constructing external URLs. --Splarka (rant) 08:32, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Good example. I've added that on meta [23]. --Ligulem 09:05, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Links to Wikipedia:Sandbox have been redirected

Are you sure that wasn't just someone using the sandbox to figure out an article on Miyavi? Adam Cuerden ^talk 22:20, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
I've reset the sandbox, so it should appear normal now. Tra (Talk) 22:49, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Login cancels all the time. Why?

It's probably a problem with the network somewhere that prevents you logging in. If the secure server works, use that instead since it was designed for these kinds of problems. Tra (Talk) 22:52, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Try refreshing the main page and clearing your cache. Tra (Talk) 17:28, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Do you check "remember me"? —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 06:09, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Extra space

Is there an extra space between the two words here: "foo bar." and not here: "foo bar."? Do you see a little image there? --Splarka (rant) 08:17, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Yeah, an external link arrow. --Brand спойт 13:18, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Is it possible to change the logo?

If you would like to change the logo to something else for your personal viewing, adding #p-logo a { background-image: url(whatever) !important } to Special:Myprofile/monobook.css will do what you want.  If you mean sitewide, similar methods could be used, or someone with shell access could be asked to set up a specific on-wiki image as the logo. —Simetrical (talk • contribs) 06:00, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Special:Export not working properly

{{Usernameblock}} is currently a redirect to {{UsernameBlock}}, where the full history is located.  Not sure about the other one, it works for me.  Naconkantari 22:37, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
It didn't work with Template:Sockpuppet, I didn't get the full edit history. 82.42.237.71 22:51, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
(the above was posted by me, accidentally logged-out!) SunStar Net 23:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
What do you use to upload these templates in your wiki? I think the correct solution is to enable Special:Import and use that. Tizio, Caio, Sempronio 13:33, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
Is Special:Import enabled by default?? --SunStar Net 23:28, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
As far as I can see, it's not: the variable wgImportSources seems to regulate this, and is an empty array in DefaultSettings.php. I don't have mediawiki installed so I cannot be sure, but I think you have first to be sure that wikipedia is in the interwiki map you use, and then you have to add its interwiki prefix as an element of the array wgImportSources in LocalSettings.php. Tizio, Caio, Sempronio 11:28, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Image:Ella in Yonkers.jpg

File:Ella in Yonkers.jpg
This image will not show up as a thumbnail on its own description page no matter what I do.  It will sometimes show up on other pages if the thumbnail size is specified (it "likes" some sizes more than others), but the infobox at Yonkers, New York, which should auto-generate the thumbnail, won't. I've purged the image cache about a dozen times and even uploaded a smaller version of the image, thinking that it was a bit big for the software to handle.  Any ideas? Dyfsunctional 14:34, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Doesn't work for me as well. The image description page contains an image at url http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b5/Ella_in_Yonkers.jpg/800px-Ella_in_Yonkers.jpg and the result of loading it separately is:
<h1>File not found</h1>
<p>Although this PHP script (/w/thumb.php) exists, the file requested for output

(/mnt/upload3/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b5/Ella_in_Yonkers.jpg/800px-Ella_in_Yonkers.jpg) does not.</p>

Change the special page names

Incorporating babel language without header/footer

Wikipedia:Babel
en This user is a native speaker of the English language.
Search user languages

Not quite sure what you mean, but just {{user en}} by itself will produce en This user is a native speaker of the English language.

Userboxes
en This user is a native speaker of the English language.

Thats precisely what I was looking for, thanks! Peppery 02:25, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

		Son
		Cell 1

		Daughter
		Cell 2

		Son
		Cell 1

		Daughter
		Cell 2

Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive AA

Need help with tables

Glitch on Rose Bowl Game article

Support for SVGZ

Category pages background

Image Problem

Detailed statistics forbidden

Addition to a MediaWiki: page

Messed up image at 200px

Still having problems with images

Weird problem with deletiondebates template

Browsing to an article by means of its unique id?

suggestion for easier/quicker reverting

WP:AFD/Old borked

CydeBot slapping me down

A page I do not understand

Adding YouTube Video (with Player) to a Wiki Page

History entries sometimes flipped

Talk:Main Page problem

External Links

Font size increase

Uploading graphic

Font problem

Edit sections

Load of different wiki syntaxes

Infoboxes are a mess

Tricky vandalism?

Failed to parse - Unknown Error

Layout changes?

Template {{ed}}

Category problem

left-aligned templates?

Image not displaying

List of articles that have been deleted

Boxes on user page

Continuing Search problem

Problems logging in

Edit 'section'

MOVING A SANDBOX PAGE TO A LIVE PAGE

Parts of Wikipedia's computer thinks my article does not exist

Aligning ? on taxobox

creating an image link to wikimedia

image tag problem

Columns

Userbox Images

Dictionary Search + Wikipedia

Infoboxes broken

Columns, infoboxes, floating, and layout

Simile Project

RfA reform plan

RSS watchlist

StringFunctions

Images not appearing

Problem encountered when using search function

Staying logged on

NavigationBar

Underlining

Statistics page

Top edittools location

Longest article name in wikipedia?

Locating history of deleted pages

Help with an infobox

Top-level TOC template...?

Improving an article

Moving something from my userpage to my talk page

Chemical Romancers as templates

Template formatting issue

Images, ..., video, and sounds (hints about property rights)

Page Hits Statistics

Purging CSS?

Style changes

w/index.php

Wikipedia / Internet Explorer 6 problem

Hidden "Extras" in JPG files costing Wikipedia unnecessary bandwidth

Correct info for Category:Band Templates

CSS error? External links

CSS or other formatting problem?

Deleting original page after #REDIRECT

Problem editing pages

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