User talk:Daniel Mietchen

Welcome!

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Name on Editor list

Daniel, I see that your name placement has been fixed on the List of Editors. Try to sign up again for the editors list. David E. Volk 14:12, 22 February 2008 (CST)

Biology Editorship

Daniel, I have added the category Biology Editor to your page. David E. Volk 09:38, 13 March 2008 (CDT)

A better place to start

Hi Daniel, I noticed you adding content to the List_of_biology_topics. I just want to warn you that we have not really being using that list. It is a hold-over from wikipdia. A better place would be to add articles of interest to the biology workgroup page. In addition you can see a list of core articles (articles we don't have but would like) for biology here and health sciences here. Or of course you can develop your own list, and or use the List_of_biology_topics as your own too. Chris Day 08:41, 1 April 2008 (CDT)

EZarticle-closed

You should use {{EZarticle-closed-auto}} if you want the category added. {{EZarticle-closed}} is for use in places where we don't want the page it's on to be added to the cat. J. Noel Chiappa 18:21, 2 April 2008 (CDT)

Sure. BTW, I noticed you created {{EZarticle-open}}; you might want to use the same system there, so that they operate in a similar fashion. Oops, I see you've already done so!

I'm looking forward to seeing some of those articles on your User: page - it looks like you can cover a lot of interesting ground! J. Noel Chiappa 10:49, 3 April 2008 (CDT)

Green light

There's a green light! Should I use that? --Robert W King 18:50, 3 April 2008 (CDT)

Yes, please. Thanks! -- Daniel Mietchen 18:59, 3 April 2008 (CDT)

Redirects

Chest x-ray -> X-ray diffraction? Huh? The latter article has nothing about medical X-rays in it. J. Noel Chiappa 01:20, 29 April 2008 (CDT)

Your attention needed..

..here --Thanks, D. Matt Innis 12:00, 29 April 2008 (CDT)

rpl template

Is there still a problem? They all look fine at the moment. The size of the page does seem to be above the limit so the templates should still work OK currently the natural sciences page has a Pre-expand include size: 1,565,676 bytes and a Post-expand include size: 499,066 bytes. The Maximum is 4,194,304 bytes. Chris Day 09:16, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

I just got rid of the def part of the {{rpl}} template and also removed a line break so it can be more compact on the List of biology topics page. See what you think. It's still up there at over 2Mbytes but at least it can load now. For the core article page (natural sciences) the Pre-expand include size: 1460210 bytes and Post-expand include size: 334177 bytes have not been reduced that much. It's possible the def part was incompatible with that page for some reason. Chris Day 10:22, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

I had to add a break otherwise the core articles got badly mixed up. I'll think a bit more how we can do this with the minimum amount of size for the template. Note that blue links represent redirects or articles that have no metadata. Chris Day 10:30, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

I just changed the {{rpl}} template to get the List of biology working. I don't think the def will allow that one to open but it might well be fine with the core articles. Another possible solution is to have each workgroups core articles on a different page, that will reduce the size significantly. There is no reason why we cannot do that, i just set it up as natural sciences and humantities etc, as it was convenient at the time (less work). Chris Day 11:18, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

My most recent streamlining of {{rpl}} has brought the natural sciences core article page down to Pre-expand include size: 924,996 bytes and Post-expand include size: 248,044 bytes. That's getting to be a little better. Chris Day 16:26, 6 May 2008 (CDT)

Daniel, the category problem is that sometimes the article needs a minor edit to appear in the category. I'm not sure why that is the case. As for the problems above did you see how the {{r}} template functions? See below:

{{r|Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging}} gives:

• Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging [r]: Add brief definition or description

{{r|biology}} gives:

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e],

{{r|Functional magnetic resonance imaging}} gives:

• Functional magnetic resonance imaging [r]: A neuroimaging technique used to monitor task-specific blood oxygenation, primarily in the brain. ^[e]

{{r|Biology}} gives:

• Biology [r]: The science of life — of complex, self-organizing, information-processing systems living in the past, present or future. ^[e].

Is this what you wanted? I can modify the {{rpl}} template to do the same thing. The {{Ra}} one is already obsolete, I'll delete that one. Chris Day 12:01, 8 May 2008 (CDT)

Yes, thanks. -- Daniel Mietchen 12:20, 8 May 2008 (CDT)

Check updated version. I have tried to code it so only the used stuff gets counted. Before we had gifs and code being called but not used. This was adding to the size. We still need to split the page but at least now the ones we have can still function. Chris Day 02:48, 15 May 2008 (CDT)

Cell biology is a strange one. That occurred due to the existence of a double redirect from Template:Def Cell Biology to Template:Def Cell biology which itself was a redirect to Cell biology/Definition. Have you seen many of those? Chris Day 08:24, 15 May 2008 (CDT)