User talk:Tra/Archive/4

Thanks For That!

Thank you! I just logged in, and after looking at my Talk Page, I checked my Watchlist and found out that my User Page had been nominated for deletion by Opronc-oB. I will get Luna Santin to intervene, as he dealt with the other Oproncs. Read User Talk: Opronc-oA for some information. Acalamari 20:07, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for answering my question at the Village Pump

Thank you for the advice on Private tables in the db dump. I shall go and comb the archives. Are user renaming actions captured in the logging table?
WikiInquirer 05:41, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Yes, and you can view them at Special:Log/renameuser so I would presume that they would also be available in the database dump, although I havn't looked at that particular download myself. If they aren't available, you could always just scrape the website. Be aware, however, that if a user performs an action before they are renamed then the logs aren't always consistent on whether the old or new username is used. You might want to look through the logs for a few recently renamed users to familiarize yourself on how the actions are recorded. Tra (Talk) 13:14, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Tra, thanks for the above reply. Just to be sure, a user cannot rename herself as another user who already has that username right? Meaning to say, there can't be more than one Jimbo Wales. I checked the db schema and it says that user_name is an unique index and user_id is the primary key to the user table. --WikiInquirer 05:06, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

It is not possible to rename a user to a username that is already taken, and it is not possible to have two users with the same username at a given point in time, but it is possible to rename a user to another username, which frees up their old username for someone to rename a user to, e.g. the following renames could be performed:

1. JoeBloggs -> JoeBloggs2
2. JohnSmith -> JoeBloggs (because JoeBloggs is now available)

This happens very rarely, however (since only Beaurocrats can rename users, and most renames are normal and straightforward), so you would probably be able to manually fix your statistics when this happens, if it causes a problem. Tra (Talk) 17:55, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank you very much, Tra. You have been a great help =) --WikiInquirer 04:28, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

Maps, Irregular English verbs

Hello, again,

1. I see on your user page you have created some maps. Can you tell me how you made them? I'm interested in making a map for the Uele River article.

2. On this talk page, I suggested dividing the list of irregular verbs in English into more common and less common. I would actually like to add a page that separates them, rather than replace the alphabetical list. What do you think? DBlomgren 01:46, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Hi,

1. For the maps, what you need to do is find an existing map of the area the Uele River goes through (preferably under a free license), paste it into some drawing software (I used Paint for the Guernsey and Jersey maps), then rub out any irrelevant detail on the map and go over with a pencil or paintbrush tool any lines that are too thin or faint.
2. As for the verbs, I'm no linguist but a problem you might encounter is where you would need to draw the line on which verbs are more or less common. If there is some official criteria (like a verb must be used at least x times in the last y years to be considered 'common') then you might want to mention that if you go ahead, but personally, I don't really know the subject that well. Tra (Talk) 02:11, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Norman Wikipedia

Thanks for your contributions to the Norman Wikipedia! If you ever want to learn Norman, I'd be glad to help out.

The Jade Knight 07:47, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

just a quick technical question

Hey, sorry to bother you all the way here on your talk page.

Just a query about your answer to my question at the technical village pump. You said "it is a bit of a hack and it probably won't look correct when looking at anything other than the default monobook skin on screen" when you suggested <h3 style="border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;">Insert text here</h3> as a solution to my problem.

I was just wondering why you think it won't work on other skins. shouldn't html would show up the same no matter how you're viewing it?

If not, exactly how different do you think it'd look? Like are you talking about the line not appearing for people with other skins, or appearing incorrectly...or what?

Thanks --Saintmagician 02:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, I'll put the line below as a test of my code:

Insert text here

If you go to your preferences and switch between different skins, you'll see how it looks for each of those skins. The problem you'll find is that the line will always appear, even when the skin does not use underlined headings, which would cause these headings to look a bit out of place. It's not too big a problem, but it might cause some confusion. Tra (Talk) 02:15, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

ahh...crap. Okay, i so should have thought of that. Anyway, thanks for the response. --Saintmagician 02:19, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

That ASCII barnstar you made

Remember you made that ASCII barnstar for me? Well, I have now proposed this and have given you most of the credit for the image. Comments would be greatly appreciated. You can find the proposal here. --AAA! ^(AAAA) 14:13, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

one of your tools

I can't get userwatchlist to work. I go to your subpage and "Loading..." appears but then it goes away and nothing else happens. I confirmed that there are edits it should be showing. Any ideas? — coelacan talk — 02:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I've recently found out that it doesn't work on FireFox, sorry. I'll put a note on my user page to that effect. Tra (Talk) 02:25, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Is it IE only, or does it work in Opera? — coelacan talk — 02:37, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

By the way I'm pretty sure that's the whole Mozilla family it doesn't work in, then, because I'm not using Firefox. — coelacan talk — 02:39, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know; I've adjusted the wording. Tra (Talk) 02:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm having trouble with IE 6 also. It does loading for a moment and then flashes an unhelpful error box that says "Unknown", followed by another that says "Line: 23 Char: 5 Error: The system cannot locate the resource specified. Code: 0 URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Tra/User_watchlist" — coelacan talk — 03:01, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I've tested it and I know it works for me in Internet Explorer 6 and 7. I'm guessing the error you're giving might be something to do with the ajax requests but I'm not entirely sure since it was quite some time since I wrote the code. Tra (Talk) 03:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Thank You Again.

I have to thank you again for reverting vandalism to my User page. That's another revert I owe you. :) Acalamari 02:36, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for clarifying the thing about the blue links. Paul Haymon 00:37, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

Template

Thank you so much!!!! —Angr 06:13, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

References problem

Cheers! All is now clear. Axiosaurus 22:01, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for that.--MrFish^{Go Fish} 21:43, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

My user watchlist

I just installed your user watchlist script (very useful, too), and it's not working the way it should. I have three users on my normal watchlist, myself and two IPs. However, one of the IPs doesn't show up on the user watchlist at all. Any clues as to why? Pyrospirit ^{Flames Fire} 00:16, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

It could be because that particular IP address has not made any edits within the last day. Try looking through their contributions page manually to see when their last edit was. Also, if you are to the east of the Greenwich Meridian, you will probably find that you see less contributions than if you live to the west, and also, around midnight,you may find that all of the contributions disappear, due to some bugs in the way dates are calculated. Tra (Talk) 00:25, 28 February 2007 (UTC)