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April 30

Where online can I stream the documentary Let me die a woman?

I'm curious. Bluestarcanada (talk) 01:17, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Have you attempted searching on YouTube? The complete 1:15:32 documentary is available there as an age-restricted video (due to nudity). -- 01:47, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

This will give you some options. --Jayron32 01:50, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Russian gold rubles

Can someone tell me how much eighteen million gold rubles would be in both US dollar and euro? This is for an article. If these are out of date tsarist rubles, I need to know the amount they would have been worth when they were currency, not their value today. --Steverci (talk) 01:57, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

According to our article Russian rouble "On 17 December 1885, a new standard was adopted which did not change the silver ruble but reduced the gold content to 1.161 grams, pegging the gold ruble to the French franc at a rate of 1 ruble = 4 francs. This rate was revised in 1897 to 1 ruble = 2⅔ francs (0.774 grams gold). The ruble was worth about .50 USD in 1914." DuncanHill (talk) 13:40, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Yahoo adverts

Do yahoo adverts target you based on your search engine interests, or are the adverts totally random? Freidnless lnoner (talk) 12:15, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

I would be shocked if they were random. Yahoo likely either A) stores a HTTP cookie on your system which knows what you search for and what your preferences are or B) keeps a record on their servers which are checked before loading an ad specific for you. Dismas|^(talk) 12:26, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

When I get an ad at yahoo, I usually see a little "why is this ad here?" tab. Follow that and it gives info. μηδείς (talk) 21:11, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

Printing material

I sometimes wish to print a section of a Wikipedia article without printing the whole article. Is it possible to pre-view a printable version so one could select the page or pages one is interested in printing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 105.237.140.176 (talk) 14:21, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

It would depend on your browser. Internet Explorer has a Print Preview function; Chrome appears to offer a preview as part of the printing process.--Phil Holmes (talk) 14:51, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

You could also do a screen capture (such as using the Print Screen keyboard key) then paste into something like Microsoft Paint, remove anything you don't want and/or crop it, then print. The disadvantage of this method is that it only allows you to print one screen's worth at a time, which frequently isn't enough, requiring you to repeat the process many times. The higher the resolution is set on your screen, the more you can get per screen capture. StuRat (talk) 18:51, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

• Click on "printable version" on the left of the screen, highlight the part you want to print and then simply print the selection. Copy pasting the selection into a word processing software (like MS-Word) should work too.--TMCk (talk) 21:04, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Checkboxes

I'm seeing little checkboxes on page histories now. Have they always been there and I never noticed them before? Or is this a recent innovation? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:24, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

It's new - evidently you can now edit the tags of individual revisions and such. SteveBaker (talk) 19:48, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

By "tags" do you mean "citation needed" and such as that? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 20:23, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:Tags. I just found this out by playing with the feature. If you want to, go to your userpage history, click a checkbox, and click on the button at the top right of the page. Dismas|^(talk) 21:22, 30 April 2015 (UTC)

I don't think I would use this. I wonder if it's possible to disable it? I don't see it in my "Preferences". ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 01:59, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Admins have had those boxes for years (for viewing deleted revisions). They are ugly. --jpgordon^{::==( o )} 04:48, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

Are the rest of us now stuck with them? Should I ask this question at the Village Pump? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 13:15, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

I wondered when I would ever use them and after thinking about it, can't think of why I would. So, if you don't ask there, I probably will be in the coming days. Dismas|^(talk) 13:25, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

I've asked, here.[1] If that was the wrong place to ask, I'm assuming they'll tell me so. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:12, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

There has already been some discussion about it here: [2] Does that coding look like it would work? And where should it be placed? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 14:22, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

I already asked at the right place, which is here, and they gave me a little piece of code similar to the one on the village pump which works fine. --Viennese Waltz 18:29, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

I don't have a "global css" page. Where can I find out how to create one? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:37, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

They probably mean User:Baseball Bugs/common.css. Dismas|^(talk) 19:00, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

The boxes have been removed for non-admins (and lost an option for admins who always had the boxes) but for the record, global css is meta:Special:MyPage/global.css, linked at "Shared CSS/JavaScript for all wikis" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering. common.css only has effect on the local wiki. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:59, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

This disappeared from my page histories an hour or two ago. I checked my code subpages and they haven't been touched (thought maybe someone was "helping me out"). Have you checked your page histories lately? ―Mandruss ☎ 18:42, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

I can't see/find it in my 15" monitor screen; could be my browser... -- Mr. Prophet (talk) 18:50, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

I am no longer seeing it. Evidently they listened to the complaints at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical). ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 21:44, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

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