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== About the "Toapprove" template ==
<h1>Extension testing!</h1>


Greg, take a look at [[Ammonia production]] which has been nominated for Approval. The notification that announces the nomination (created by the "Toapprove" template) has the date written as '''20080928'''.


That is quite cryptic at first glance. Would it not be better if it were written as '''2008-09-28'''? Would you be so kind as to make that change in the template? - [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 12:59, 25 September 2008 (CDT)
<h2>Timeline</h2>
<timeline>
# All measures are in pixels


== Weird link bug ==
ImageSize  = width:160 height:550
PlotArea  = left:50 right:0 bottom:10 top:10
AlignBars  = justify


Greg,
DateFormat = yyyy
I didn't know who else to alert, so I'm starting with you.  Please take a look at this section: [[CIO/Draft#Further_Reading]].  There seems to be some some sort of glitch.  The code is "<nowiki>[http://books.google.com/books?id=BMZiFI9UNXQC John L. Lewis]. (1986)</nowiki>."  So you and I would expect the text to look like this: "<font color=blue>John L. Lewis</font>. (1986)."  But it doesn't.  It looks like this: "<font color=blue>John L. Lewis</font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;. (1986)."  There is a space between the link and the period.  I can't see that I'm coding anything incorrectly.  If this isn't your bailiwick, please direct me to who I need to talk to.  Thanks. --[[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] 15:54, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Period    = from:1919 till:1991
TimeAxis  = orientation:vertical
ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1920


:Russell, that bug has existed for years ... even in Wikipedia. It would be nice if it could be fixed. [[User:Milton Beychok|Milton Beychok]] 15:59, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
# there is no automatic collision detection,
# so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap


::I have noticed this too.  i think the problem is with plainlinks.  External links usually have an arrow icon at the end. With plainlinks activate the arrow should disappear so it looks like an internal link.  In CZ it partly work, in that the arrow disappears, but the space for the arrow is still present. i agree with Milt that this has existed for a while, however, it used to work as you would expect, ''i.e.'' no arrow and the space disappear. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 16:01, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar


::Ah-ha.  I see.  The space is where the outsourcing arrow would be.  [http://historywiki.emich.edu/index.php?title=Help:Sources#American_History:_General Take a look at this page] (Pardon the egregious self-plug).  Same mediawiki software (although probably an earlier version), but the link to the American Memory Collection at the Library of Congress has the arrow.  Thanks for your help in isolating this.--[[User:Russell D. Jones|Russell D. Jones]] 16:09, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
PlotData=
  bar:Leaders color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S


:::Strange, i don't see the arrow and the space is not there either. This might well be a browser issue rather than a mediawiki issue. [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 16:45, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
  from:start till:1922 shift:($dx,15)  text:Vladimir~Ilyich~[[Lenin]]
 
  from:1922  till:1953 shift:($dx,5)   text:[[Stalin|Josef~Stalin]]
::::The picture for the arrow is at http://en.citizendium.org/skins/Pinkwich5/external.png . If I go to that page with my browser, it complains that the image contains errors. Indeed, the PNG file is 164 bytes long while the corresponding file for the old skin (http://en.citizendium.org/skins/monobook/external.png, which displays fine with my browser) is one byte longer. So it looks like something went wrong there. I asked Greg by email to copy the files; I seem to remember that he doesn't check this page that often. -- [[User:Jitse Niesen|Jitse Niesen]] 14:25, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
  from:1953  till:1964 shift:($dx,5)    text:Nikita~[[Khrushchev]]
 
  from:1964 till:1982 shift:($dx,5)   text:Leonid~[[Brezhnev]]
::::* Images should be fixed now. [[User:Greg Sabino Mullane|Greg Sabino Mullane]] 15:29, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
  from:1982  till:1984 shift:($dx,-12) text:Yuri~[[Andropov]]
 
  from:1984 till:1985 shift:($dx,4)   text:Konstantin~[[Chernenko]] fontsize:XS
== E-mail connection problem ==
  from:1985 till:end shift:($dx,10)   text:Mikhail~[[Gorbachev]]
 
</timeline>
Hey Greg, I assume this will get to you. I just checked my CZ mail...and I can't check it.  Seems to be a problem with the mail server.  Will you have time to investigate anytime soon?  TIA... --[[User:Larry Sanger|Larry Sanger]] 01:06, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
 
== Dude you're awesome ==
So at work we're trying to come up with a multi-master Postgres solution, and lo and behold I happened upon [http://bucardo.org/ Bucardo]. You developed a multi-master Postgres solution!?! That's awesome [[User:Eric M Gearhart|Eric M Gearhart]] 19:15, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 
== Availability of MW 1.13.2 (modified) ==
 
Hi Greg,
 
I am interested in writing an extension for CZ. The user requirements for this extension are currently under discussion (see [[CZ:Wishlist/Citations, References and Bibliographies]]). It is not certain that these requirements will lead to technical requirements requiring an extension, but I would like to be prepared in case they do. So, I was wondering, is there a Subversion repository that has the source for the currently installed version of MW for CZ? Does the Mediawiki repository hold the source? Is it somewhere else? Thanks. [[User:Dan Nessett|Dan Nessett]] 20:56, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
 
== Need help with registration pages ==
 
Greg, it appears that it is impossible for any of us Council members to edit any of the information currently on this page: [[Special:RequestAccount]] . I am interested, as a result of the recent election, in immediately simplifying the text in the first paragraphs of this page.  If I give you the text, could you please replace the existing text with this new text, while keeping any links?  I propose to replace the header and first 5 paragraphs (everything above the User Account box) with the new text shown here: [[User:Pat_Palmer/join_proposal]] . Note that I've removed mention of Editor requests; for now, people just need to request Council to consider becoming an Editor--we will need something more formal later, of course. Also, once the Council has a chance to meet together, this may need to change again, but I would very much like to get it cleaned up a little bit now.  Can you help?[[User:Pat Palmer|Pat Palmer]] 15:26, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
 
: P S - is there any way I can be given the ability to edit the templates involved without going through you?  Would you consider giving me temporary sysop privileges, for example?[[User:Pat Palmer|Pat Palmer]] 15:26, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

Revision as of 15:23, 2 December 2014

Extension testing!


Timeline

<timeline>

  1. All measures are in pixels

ImageSize = width:160 height:550 PlotArea = left:50 right:0 bottom:10 top:10 AlignBars = justify

DateFormat = yyyy Period = from:1919 till:1991 TimeAxis = orientation:vertical ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:5 start:1920

  1. there is no automatic collision detection,
  2. so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap

Define $dx = 25 # shift text to right side of bar

PlotData= 

 bar:Leaders color:red width:25 mark:(line,white) align:left fontsize:S

 from:start till:1922 shift:($dx,15)   text:Vladimir~Ilyich~Lenin
 from:1922  till:1953 shift:($dx,5)    text:Josef~Stalin
 from:1953  till:1964 shift:($dx,5)    text:Nikita~Khrushchev
 from:1964  till:1982 shift:($dx,5)    text:Leonid~Brezhnev
 from:1982  till:1984 shift:($dx,-12)  text:Yuri~Andropov
 from:1984  till:1985 shift:($dx,4)    text:Konstantin~Chernenko fontsize:XS
 from:1985  till:end  shift:($dx,10)   text:Mikhail~Gorbachev

</timeline>

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