User talk:Melroch

What have you done to the Common CSS? Everything's big!--S.C. Anderson 19:09, 6 November 2008 (UTC)

Sorry about that. My user CSS caused me not to see the real effect of what I had done! One million apologies! BPJ 07:06, 7 November 2008 (UTC)

Quid est?

Ok, Thank you for your advise! I will take care of the vowel table! :P Ciao Bukkia

DPL

I installed the extension you asked for. I didn't get to look too well into how it works, so let me know if it doesn't and I'll check it out. —Muke Tever | ✎ 08:23, 22 April 2007 (PDT)

I'll look at it this week. As usual Real Life has served me stuff that needs to be looked into first... BPJ 09:55, 22 April 2007 (PDT)

However a preliminary test of the basic function worked OK: User:Melroch/sandbox#DPL_test. I'll test some of the tentinnabulas et fistulas ASAP BPJ

Ok, thats fine but why did you delete my con-lang from the list?

Combined regional timelines

Hi BPJ,

I'd like to create an article that contains a timeline for multiple regions at once, where the user can select which regions to display (similar to collapsible tables on Wikipedia, but based on <li>

tags). The events should be listed in chronological order, so each event must probably be treated as an individual entity within a <div>
tag whose class/id value is changed). I have a fairly good idea how to approach this; only I have little experience with both wiki templates and JavaScript (which I suspect might be necessary). Maybe you as the template expert of FW could help me with this?

Basically, my idea is as follows:

Timeline article

{{Timeline|SPHERE}}
{{Event|region1|103|King of Region 1 dies.}}
{{Event|region2|110|Rebellion in Region 2.}}
</div>

(Note that "SPHERE" should not actually appear in the wikitext, but represents a variable containing the sphere(s) that the user wants to see. This is what must be changed dynamically.)

Template:Timeline

<div class="timeline" id="{{{1}}}">

Template:Event

<span class={{{1}}}>
* {{{2}}} AD: {{{3}}}</span>

Common.css

.timeline li {display:none;}
#region1 .region1  {display:inline;}
#region2 .region2  {display:inline;}

With this (I think) I'd only need a way to set the SPHERE

variable in Template:Timeline to either "region1"
or "region2"
dynamically, based on user choice. The output should then look like so:

SPHERE="region1"

• 103 AD: King of Region 1 dies.

SPHERE="region2"

• 110 AD: Rebellion in Region 2.

SPHERE="region1 region2"

• 103 AD: King of Region 1 dies.
• 110 AD: Rebellion in Region 2.

cedh audmanh 09:30, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Answer

I'm afraid you're out of luck since JS can't be included in wiki pages.

You'd need to find/write a MediaWiki extension which does what you want and persuade Muke to install it -- which latter would be the easy part. Go to [1] and look for collapsible table list extensions! BPJ 10:33, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

You may look at [2] and see if you have the skill to modify it to get what you want. I don't, being a JS moron.

(Turns out there is room for many human-like languages in my brain but only one slot for programming languages, and that is already filled by Perl! :-)BPJ 10:41, 20 July 2008 (UTC)

Category cleanup

I've been sorting some of the bulk at Category:Conlangs - not by making judgements, but quite a few articles have redundant multi-categorization (typically two or three of cat:Conlangs, cat:A priori conlangs, cat:A posteriori conlangs, cat:IE conlangs, cat:Romance conlangs). I noticed there are a number of articles where you've added the top-level category. What's up with that? --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 09:11, 24 June 2009 (UTC)