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)
Jaha, det visste jag inte om + i charinsert. Tack! Qwynegold 14:27, 26 September 2009 (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
tablelist 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)
- No particular reason. Actually I see no evil in cross-categorization if it helps people find what they are looking for/something interesting. It does very little in terms of database size if that's what worries you.
- I think of it as general cleanup. If all the hundreds of conlangs on the site were lump'd into the same category, it would not be "categorization" at all (since after all, conlangs are the main interest here!) That's what the List of conlangs is for, isn't it?
- Also, given that we do have some subcategorization, I don't think "downwards" cross-categorization is helpful. If an article is in Category:Indo-European conlangs, I expect it not to be a Romance, Germanic or Slavic conlang. Finding "negativly defined" groups would be difficult if everything were also there in addition to the subcategories.
- Perhaps you're right that one should not tag pages with several categories which one expects to be sub-/supercategories of eachother, but then one should probably also make sure that that expectation is true; e.g. Category: Romance conlangs is not ATM a subcategory of Category: Conlangs which it probably should be!
- It's found under Category:Indo-European conlangs which in turn is under Category:A posteriori conlangs. That starts to gather some density, but we're still not quite at the point of having things like Category:Para-Gallo-Iberian conlangs with Basque influence.
- IMHO one category to many on a page is probably a lesser evil than something not being found because it is assigned only to a category which is not properly subcategorized. After all the purpose of categories is to help people find stuff, not to create a taxonomy. (I should add that I'm wary of taxonomies, since in most cases (biological taxonomy obviously being an exception!) several taxonomies are equally possible and each reveals something about the matter classified, but choosing one taxonomy over another will narrow your vision.) BPJ 11:19, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
NASS
Although you comment that you abandoned it, Ᵹ (Latin capital insular g) is now in Unicode (Ᵹ U+A77D LATIN CAPITAL LETTER INSULAR G). I just thought I'd let you know. Calculator Ftvb 21:22, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
