User talk:Erik Zachte

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Indeed, very insightful :-) Ant

Thanks for the tip. I hadn't realised I was doing that. Angela 18:18, 14 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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[edit] GUTOHH

Hi, I'm Huhsunqu. All right, I'm in, but i'm needing learning more about code and proyect. Help me learning and I help you any way that I can Smile.png. Saa you. --Huhsunqu 9 July 2005 00:02 (UTC)

[edit] stats on bgwiki

Hello Erik, I would like to report that the statistics on bgwiki (http://en.wikipedia.org/wikistats/EN/TablesWikipediaBG.htm) are very outdated. Is it possible to update them for us, please? Regards, DCLXVI 9 July 2005 04:24 (UTC)

All stats are outdated. The database format changed since Mediawiki 1.5 again. There will be a new database dump format (xml) some time, don't know when, also don't know when I have time to revise the stats scripts again, probably after Wikimania. Erik Zachte July 9, 2005 12:51 (UTC)

[edit] GUT and Timelineoptimizer

Hello Erik, I answered your message on my talk page, and it brought me back to Easytimeline. Today i whipped up a small script which tries to optimally distribute overlaping event bars in as few rows as possible. I tested it on a timeline of wars in the 20th century. The content is extracted using a script from some Wikipedia-Lists. I colorcoded them by hand (preliminary). --Dschwen 17:58, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Help with new wikistat script

Hi Erik,
I'm longing for new statistics. Can I help you in any way with porting your scripts to the new XML dump format? --Langec 18:35, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your offer but update is nearly ready.
Cool, thanks :-) --Langec 10:04, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Surveys, et al

Hallo, Erik! Would you be interested in a meeting devoted to survey development in the next week or two? +sj | Translate the Quarto |+ 00:23, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiversity stats

Hi Erik, well I *always* enjoy talking with you :-). On those stats - thanks for doing that - I hope that's not completely wasted effort(?). I'm obviously delighted that Wikiversity now exists as an independent project. The only thing that frustrates me now is that I have a dissertation to work on to be handed in in two weeks so i'm just incapable of putting the time into getting something interesting going there (such as research, which we discussed at Wikimania). I really want to bring those ideas forward, and I apologise for not replying to your research-l messages - I promise I'll be back to wiki-business as usual in a month. In the meantime, hope to see you at the Special projects committee open meeting(s) (see Talk:Special_projects_committee#Public_meetings). All the best, Erik. Cormaggio @ 07:59, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fork from EasyTimeline to make an EasyMap ?

Hello Erik. As the creator of the great EasyTimeline extension, could you please take a look at bug7849 ? I would like to make it possible to put wikilinks on maps. Thanks for you help :) guillom 08:28, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

Guillom, very impressive maps! I did not know this was even possible with html. It would certainly be useful to have a more intuitive syntax for positioning the elements. Not a trivial matter though. Perhaps it could help to feed the map size to a script and data points in relative terms, say
 ImageSize=width:600 height:400 
 PlotData=
   textcolor:blue 
   at:20%,55% text:"New York" 
   at:21%,60% text:"Washington"

meaning 22% of image width counting from the left, 55% of image height counting from the bottom (0%,0% = bottom left like with cartesian coordinates)

Another possibility would be to specify coordinates in longitude,latitude notation. For many situations these can be easily found or even measured in google earth. The map itself would need to be positioned onto the globe, by stating longitude and latitude for bottomleft and topright corner. A EasyMap script could than translate longitude,latitude into percentage notation as above. It might be useful to allow several variant notations

 ImageSize=width:600 height:400 
 PlotArea=left:72.5W top:39.4N right:76.5W bottom:42.6N 
 PlotData=
   textcolor:blue 
   at:40°42'N,74°00'W     text:"[[New York]]"
   at:40.42.05N,74.00.20W text:"[[New York]]"
   at:N(40.42),W(74.00)   text:"[[New York]]"

and to have syntax that defines where to position the text relative to the symbol (say align, anchor and shift parameters) Erik Zachte 00:06, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Statistics

Hi, the main index page of stats.wikimedia.org don't have a link to the Wikisource language index (neither to Wikiversity language sites, but I have found the reasons here :) ). And to avoid confusion IMHO is a good idea to rename the sources from Wikispecial index to the current interwiki prefix for that wiki: oldwikisource:. 555 19:55, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Both done. Latter will be visible after next run. Cheers, Erik Zachte 21:09, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

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