http://en.wikipedia.org. -- Chairman S. Talk Contribs 08:04, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It can be hard, and that's why every article has a link "Cite this article" down at the left. A URL, by the way, is the address of a web page: that thing which starts http:// and you see at the top of your browser. Copy and paste it exactly. Notinasnaid 09:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Wikipedia:Citing Wikipedia − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 12:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
how to find the number of contributors —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.109.122.7 (talk • contribs) 21:08, 16 February 2007
- Contributors to what? -- Chairman S. Talk Contribs 10:47, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- According to Special:Statistics there are 3,576,983 registered user accounts, of which 1,117 (0.03%) are administrators. Some more detailed statistics can be found at this site, though only as recent as November 2006.
- − Twas Now ( talk • contribs • e-mail ) 12:34, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I've added a page to AfD today, 16th Feb, it appeared in the log. Seemed OK.
Being this: Articles_for_deletion/Civilian (street_artist)
Then I bundled some other pages together with it. Now neither they nor the first one are in the log of today's AfD's. Have they gotten lost somewhere, somehow? Marcus22 12:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- According to Special:Contributions/Marcus22, you never added the AfD nomination to the log. Is it possible that you clicked on 'preview' rather than 'save' by mistake, and didn't notice? (You'd probably better try adding it to the log again, so that the debate can be closed in proper time.) --ais523 12:43, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
How to clear data present in the search browser (Wiki cache)
I want to know how to clear the Wikipedia search browser. I dont want any pages saved here, because most of it is not child-friendly.I want my Wikipedia to be safe for my kids to use.
- There's a good answer to that question further up the page:
- This is nothing to do with Wikipedia; however, some browsers will have this as a feature. I think it's called 'AutoComplete' in Internet Explorer, so there might be some way to clear it in the menus somewhere (I don't have access to the relevant menus on this computer, though, so I can't check). --ais523 15:01, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
- I think you can delete individual items by highlighting them with the cursor and pressing the Delete key, or alternatively:
- In Internet Explorer, click Tools -> Internet Options..., click the Content tab, click AutoComplete and there are options there.
- In Firefox, to disable the feature go to Tools -> Options..., in the Privacy section, click the Saved Forms tab and uncheck "Save information I enter in forms and the Search Bar" and click OK and then click Tools -> Clear Private Data... and make sure Saved Form Information has a tick and then click Clear Private Data Now. It's up to you to determine what other data you want to clear. I think that's everything I can tell you, but it's more a question for the Reference desk. --WikiSlasher 12:18, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
- I hope that helps! --ais523 13:45, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
correction in a biography
Hello , we went to the Edouard Glissant Biography and he (Edouard Glissant) thinks that you need to make few corrections on the text . we try to edit directly some changes we made but apparently it doesn't work . Could help us with this ?
- These are the edits you made: [3]. If the article appears to have not changed, try bypassing your cache. --ais523 16:16, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
If, for example, I use [[image:foo.jpg|100px]], I will get an image that is 100 pixels wide, and the height is calculated automatically. Is there any way I can specify the height I want for an image, and let the width be calculated automatically? – Tivedshambo (talk) 16:49, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- According to Wikipedia:Extended_image_syntax#Size, if you use [[image:foo.jpg|1000x150px]], you will get an image that is no wider than 1000 pixels and no taller than 150 pixels. For a sufficiently large width value, the height value will be the controlling limitation. Particularly if you're inserting the image in an article, however, you might want to review Wikipedia:Image_use_policy#Displayed_image_size, which discusses recommended maximum widths. Based on that recommendation, you might consider setting your maximum width to 550, so that the image will display on 800x600 monitors correctly. Subject to that maximum width limitation, your height limitation will control the image size. TheronJ 16:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks. The images will be logos for my home page. – Tivedshambo (talk) 17:06, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- If one knows the aspect ratio of the image, one could try using an
{{#expr }}
function to calculate the width for the [[image ]]
tag from the desired height. For example, if the original image is 300px wide and 500px tall, and one wants to specify a scaled image height of 200px, the resulting width should be: {{#expr: 200 * 300 / 500}}px = 120px
. Insert the whole expression tag into the image tag's width parameter, like this: [[image:foo.jpg|{{#expr: 200 * 300 / 500}}px]]
, after substituting the actual height and width of the original image, and the desired scaled height. Disclaimer: I have not actually tested this on a real image tag, so you may need to experiment. See: Help:Calculation. And this would only work on MediaWiki wikis that have the ParserFunctions extension installed (such as Wikipedia). --Teratornis 17:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have created this very nice animation for wikipedia that describes the spread of religion over centuries but when I try to put it in an article in a thumbnail form it doesn't appear, it says the thumbnail image is 404. The image is [4] What do I do? -- zenberg 16:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- If I recall correctly, some animated GIFs can't be resized. Trebor 17:15, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Does anyone have more information about this? Perhaps I saved it encoded in a nonstandard way, some more information would be very helpful. I doubt it has anything to do with size as there are other gif animations much bigger than mine (such as: [5] and have perfectly find thumbnails. -- zenberg 17:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I had a possibly similar situation on a corporate wiki in which a user uploaded an image file, and no thumbnail was appearing on the wiki. I investigated and determined that the MediaWiki software was using the
convert
program (part of ImageMagick) to generate the thumbnail. I tried running convert
on the command line to test the thumbnail generation manually, like this:convert original_file.png -thumbnail 180x120 thumbnail_file.png
- and the result was:
convert: Corrupt image `original_file.png'.
- The solution was to open the original file in another graphic software program and re-save it. The re-saved file then did not seem corrupted to the
convert
program. The ImageMagick bundle of programs comes standard on Linux, Cygwin, etc., if you want to play around with it. --Teratornis 18:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I might add that if you have an animated graphic file that works, you might download it to your (hopefully Linux or Unix-like) computer, and compare the output of the
file
command on the working file to the output for your file. That might give some clue about what file format to use. References: Comparison of graphics file formats, Image file formats. --Teratornis 22:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
cd conversion into paperback books
My memoirs (130+ pages) are on a cd. I would like to have this put into book form in at least 10 books. THere are several photos also that we have scanned for use on various pages. Setting margins, etc. does not appeal to me. Can you help?? Thank you
- Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that's what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. I hope this helps. --ais523 18:04, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
Is there a straightforward way of finding when or by whom a particular bit of text in an article was added? (Short of searching through the edit history, which is very time-consuming if the text was added hundreds of edits ago, even using a binary search.) Ben Finn 17:12, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- I don't think so, although it would be useful. Trebor 17:14, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Some revision control systems call this a "blame" or "annotate" feature. For example, Subversion has an snv.blame feature. Obviously, having a blame feature makes a revision control system more useful, for example when you want to directly question the author of a particular passage in an article (or document, program file, or whatever you are editing). A search of Meta turns up the Annotate special page that someone is working on. You may want to check it out. --Teratornis 17:55, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- And while we're on the subject, I think this section: Blame#Blame in version control could use a link to m:Annotate as another illustrative example. Is there a way to add that link without it being a self reference? --Teratornis 17:55, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Would you link to the page on Meta if you were writing it in another encyclopedia? If you think you would (which seems reasonable), that's fine, but make sure it's an external link, as you're referring to Meta in an external-linky kind of context. --ais523 18:06, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
how do you empty your search box?..124.6.189.254 18:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Look at 'How to clear data present in the search browser (Wiki cache)', six sections above this one. --ais523 18:41, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
How? I need help here, thx in advance. :-) 207.63.251.231 18:53, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Here's a link for you: Sign up to Wikipedia! Creating an account is free, and you don't even have to provide an email address (if you do, you can use it to reset your password, and you can allow other people to email you through it if you wish). You can also use the 'log in / create account' link in the top-right corner of the screen. Hope that helps! --ais523 18:58, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
I'm wondering how I would go about getting my company's pages on Wikipedia blocked from being edited by other users.
Clairecorus 19:19, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Short answer: you can't. No one has ownership over a page; by submitting it to Wikipedia you are agreeing that your contributions can be edited (mercilessly). Hope that helps. Trebor 19:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- However if the page is being vandalised then wikipedia admins can take steps to prevent that. Which page are you talking about? Theresa Knott | Taste the Korn 19:22, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
User:anaalberts' contribution [6] makes me suspect that this is Patrick Holford, or a representative. The previous history of the patrick holford article makes me more suspicious. Is this something I can/should report - and, if so, where? Thanks in advance Jon m 20:35, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- If you suspect that a user is a sock puppet, you can report him/her at Wikipedia:Suspected sock puppets. -- Chairman S. Talk Contribs 20:46, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- thanks - it looks like my suspicions were wrong, though. The user was just quoting Holford, without attributing the quote Jon m 22:05, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I have noticed that Wikipedia shows Quill Publishing as being based in New York, however I am the senior partner in Quill Publishing - a publishing company in the UK (North Yorkshire to be precise) and I wondered why Wikipedia fail to list us? To ascertain further details you will find the company and relevant details at the following website www.quillpublishing.co.uk
- The most likely reason that your company doesn't appear on Wikipedia is that it probably fails the guidelines for Notability and Verifiability. Unfortunately, Wikipedia does not keep articles on everything, only subjects that the community deems notable enough to appear. -- Chairman S. Talk Contribs 20:54, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- It's also possible that just no-one has bothered to write such an article yet. You can contribute, too, but please be mindful of WP:COI. Xiner (talk, email) 20:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I am a newcomer. Want to start simply by commenting on Talk pages. Instruction say "go to the Talk Page and hit "+"Tab and type your comments, then sign using four tildes. When I hit the Tab at upper left on by keyboard, a link is highlighted but no place to write appears. Hit Tab again and the next colored link is highlighted. What am I doing wrong?? Have I got the wrong Tab key? Taylour 20:44, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Scroll to the top of the talk page. There's a "+" sign there. That's the tab that we're talking about, not the button on the keyboard. Xiner (talk, email) 20:48, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I do appreciate that. Sorry I am a little slow. Taylour 20:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Don't worry. We all started as new users. Xiner (talk, email) 20:53, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Taylour, what page of instructions did you read? I would like to review the wording in the section that misled you, and make sure the instructions for new users are understandable to new users. Perhaps the existing wording does not adequately account for the fact that the new user sees the word "Tab" on the keyboard, but the GUI tabs in Wikipedia do not say "Tab" on them. Therefore, the Tab key is more apparently a "Tab" than the GUI item is. The instructions should make clear they are not referring to the Tab key. --Teratornis 22:38, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
How can I change the way that redirects appear on Special:Watchlist/edit? On bugzilla:759, it says to add formatting in the CSS page, but Wikipedia:WikiProject User scripts/Tutorial doesn't have instructions for how to change the formatting of text based on a spanning class. Thanks! -- Creidieki 21:17, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
- Add something like the following to your monobook.css or appropriate file:
.watchlistredir {font-style: italic;}
- replace the CSS directive with what you want. *Mishatx*-In\Out 09:04, 17 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks! That did exactly what I hoped. -- Creidieki 02:46, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
I made some changes in a Wikipedia article yesterday, I spent a lot of time finding the references and checking to make sure everything was correct and substantiated. I lost all of my changes when I closed the "Preview" window by mistake, and had to find the references again and enter them all again. I spent several hours doing all of this. When I go to the page today, though, none of the changes I made yesterday are there. However, when I check my "contributions" to Wikipedia, the changes I made are listed. Could you please explain what happened, and why, and how to resolve this? Thanks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.80.46.44 (talk • contribs)
- Which changes are you talking about (your current IP address doesn't show any changes)? It's possible that other users have changed your edits. You may also want to try bypassing your cache, in case the page isn't updating. Hope that helps. Trebor 21:21, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- You might want to tell what username or IP address you used to make those chances. If you used your current IP address Trebor would've found a trace of the edits you talked about. Failing that, giving the article title would help too. - Mgm|(talk) 22:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
How did the term "mouse" become associated with a black eye or a "shiner"? Josie209.191.13.243 21:28, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that's what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. I hope this helps. Trebor 21:32, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
My question is when you are embalmed how long does the embalment last before the body is totally decomposed
- Have you tried Wikipedia's Reference Desk? They specialize in knowledge questions, and will try to answer any question in the universe (except how to use Wikipedia, since that's what this Help Desk is for). Just follow the link, select the relevant section, and ask away. I hope this helps. Trebor 21:34, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please. TNX!
- Where is the image in question? Could you provide a link? Hersfold (talk|work) 23:09, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
- P.S. - If you add a {{POV-check}} template to the image's page, and provide a reasoning of why you feel it's biased on the image's talk page, someone should come around to look at it. I hope this helps. Hersfold (talk|work) 23:13, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]