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Friday 2 October 2009, 15:18, —Anonymous DissidentTalk
Thursday 2 July 2009, 10:46, Patrick (talk)
Thursday 2 July 2009, 09:46, Damërung ...ÏìíÏ..._Ξ_ . --  09:46, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
Sunday 5 April 2009, 15:12, Majorly talk
Friday 20 February 2009, 18:19, Thekohser
Tuesday 27 January 2009, 23:14, Patrick (talk)
Tuesday 27 January 2009, 16:20, Thekohser
Tuesday 30 December 2008, 10:05, 24.236.101.233
Tuesday 7 October 2008, 21:58, WJBscribe (talk)
Thursday 28 August 2008, 06:25, Patrick (talk)
Thursday 28 August 2008, 06:24, Patrick (talk)
Thursday 28 August 2008, 03:58, 92.124.78.251
Wednesday 6 August 2008, 03:02, 92.124.78.251
Wednesday 6 August 2008, 02:42, Hillgentleman
Wednesday 6 August 2008, 01:39, Patrick (talk)
Wednesday 6 August 2008, 01:38, Patrick (talk)
Tuesday 5 August 2008, 11:36, 92.124.78.251
Sunday 3 August 2008, 14:33, Hillgentleman
Friday 13 June 2008, 15:37, Korg
Wednesday 9 April 2008, 22:00, Patrick (talk)
Wednesday 9 April 2008, 09:54, Roadrunnerz45
Wednesday 20 February 2008, 10:30, Patrick (talk)
Tuesday 19 February 2008, 10:18, 89.14.141.186
Tuesday 5 February 2008, 18:25, Adambro
Tuesday 11 December 2007, 10:11, Patrick (talk)
Tuesday 11 December 2007, 10:09, Patrick (talk)
Tuesday 11 December 2007, 10:08, Patrick (talk)
Tuesday 11 December 2007, 09:40, Patrick (talk)
Friday 23 November 2007, 12:54, Patrick (talk)
Friday 23 November 2007, 12:52, Patrick (talk)

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[edit] Sortable tables

Wow, that's one big user talk page that probably needs archiving… Anyway, please take a look at Help talk:Sorting#Describe standard. The Help:Sorting page right now is not very helpful for users dealing with "standard" sortable tables (look at en:Help:Sorting by the way), and it doesn't even help admins who are trying to decide if modified version is worth installing. The descriptions for "standard" and modified versions really really have to be separated ∴ Alex Smotrov 04:20, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

The idea was that for some problems it is easier to fix them than to find and explain workarounds. If an admin knows of sorting problems on their wiki and sees that the examples on Meta demonstrate a solution, then that may help them decide that the modified version is worth installing. See also Help_talk:Sorting#Describe_standard.--Patrick (talk) 11:58, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How to change language?

Hello Patrick, I have a question. Regarding the magic words page, one of them is {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}}, which gives the site's interface language. Is there any way to change a page's language, I believe under $wgLanguageCode, so you can get different results for that magic word? - Keta 16:22, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

I just saw one thing: I followed a link to Kosovo from the basque Wikipedia, and the use of ...Kosovo?uselang=eu changes the value of wgUserLanguage to eu. Is there anything like this, but to change the wgContentLanguage? - Keta 18:09, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Now that I think, is there any magic word to get wgUserLanguage, just like {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} does with wgContentLanguage? Sorry about so many questions, but I need some help with all this. - Keta 18:12, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Correct, {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} takes the $wgContentLanguage and produces a result. If $wgContentLanguage=en, the {{CONTENTLANGUAGE}} magic word will produce "English". The $wgContentLanguage parameter is set in Localsettings.php, and requires a developers attention to change. There's no set variable in Localsettings.php for a user's language, because it is set in the interface, and is for a specific user. It would produce a different result for everyone, and therefore there is no magic word for that variable. To change the main interface language for $wgContentLanguage, you'll need to open a ticket at http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org. Thunderhead 18:15, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
Thanks a lot for your answer. So, the more plausible solutions are, I think, having a magic word in the form of {{USERLANGUAGE}} or so, and having some tool to change the value of wgContentLanguage. I don't understand, though, what is the problem of having a magic word to get the value of wgUserLanguage, since even if it is user-specific, it can also be changed for all using ?uselang=xx at the URL. And, maybe the desired effect could be to have a distinct looking-page for users using different languages (which is more or less my purpose). And, the other thing, how can I do to request a ?uselang=xx-like feature to change the value of wgContentLanguage? - Keta 19:15, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
I placed this discussion here, so more people can join the discussion, and so this Talk page doesn't get too long. You're welcome to contribute there if you like. Thanks for your attention. - Keta 18:46, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] MediaWiki:Tagline/ar

Please MediaWiki talk:Tagline/ar--Alnokta 23:25, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Done.--Patrick (talk) 08:26, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Thanks.--Alnokta 18:25, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Nomination for deletion

Hello Patrick. I've nominated some templates you created in June 2005 for deletion; if you'd like to comment, see Meta:Requests for deletion#Coloured box templates. —{admin} Pathoschild 18:34:49, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Li

Hi Patrick. I've nominated this template for deletion. See here. Regards. Adambro 18:25, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Xpd

Template:Xpd seems to be broken. In the examples form the documentation page, the result is always "{{{5}}}". This also affects pages using the template, such as Help:Calculation#Operators.

Thanks, I fixed it.--Patrick (talk) 10:30, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Hello Patrick, I have seen that you have made some edits to the User contributions page so i thought i might ask you a question about this. On wikipedia under the exact same heading here there is no mention that N stands for a new page has been created. Its states it on the wikimedia page but not at the encyclopedia so i was wondering whether you can add this. I know its pretty much common sense but i thought if your able to add it this would make it easy for people who dont know what it stands for. At the moment there is a section under Also Shown that states the creation of a new page except the bold N is not there. This would be the obvious place to add it. Can you help me out? It would be easy if you reply here. Thanks Roadrunnerz45 09:54, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

Done. As mentioned on the Wikipedia help pages at the bottom: You are welcome to replace the full wikitext of the help page with that of the master page at Meta at any time.--Patrick (talk) 22:00, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Template:Idd

Hi Patrick, this template has been tagged for speedy deletion. Is it still of any use? Korg 15:37, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] template looping

Hi Patrick, Do you know any way of changing the parser to allow template looping/recursion? Hillgentleman 14:33, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

Change to the old preprocessor.--Patrick (talk) 01:39, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
I know about that. But I want allow recursion even in transclusions. Hillgentleman 02:42, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Special characters in formulas

Dear Patrick,

I think you are one of users who can answer. I ask about <math>\text{foreign letter Ж or another} <math>. Just so it works but with ~ it doesn't. <math>~\text{foreign letter Ж or another} <math> doesn't give right png.

What can be done or whom must I ask? Thanks,92.124.78.251 11:36, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps \sim.--Patrick (talk) 01:38, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
No, no. I speak about foreign letters in formulas. ДОДРЛГНГЕНГЕГНАРАРГА. This symbol "~" forces engine to make png instead of text. Well, if I use foreign letters in formulas, these letters appear when it is not png, but these cannot be rendered in png.92.124.78.251 03:02, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
So what?92.124.78.251 03:58, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
Yes, that is an unfortunate limitation. I added this to Help:Displaying_a_formula#Rendering. See mw:Bugzilla for requesting a fix.--Patrick (talk) 06:24, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] October admin confirmations

Just to let you know that, per Meta:Admin#Poll after a year, your local rights on meta are up for their annual reconfirmation at Meta:Administrators/confirm. WJBscribe (talk) 21:58, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Time Parser function question

Hey there, I was browsing around looking for an answer to my #time parser function problem, and I noticed you had made some relevant edits in the past. I outlined my problem here having to do with 2 digit year returns. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear them, but if you don't know the answer that is cool; I just thought I would ask. Thanks! 24.236.101.233 10:05, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Adding "pages" to template

I wanted to ask if you could help me out. I would like to see Template:Mws modified so that "pages" is a new, sortable column, and then I will go into Sites_using_Semantic_MediaWiki to add current page number counts to each wiki listed there. This way, readers will be able to sort this table of wikis by number of pages, which I feel is a much more useful way to organize the data, rather than SMW version number, which hardly any layman would care about. If you'd like to think about another variable, I'm happy to oblige, as long as the parameters are fairly easy to find and update... e.g., Alexa ranking, total page views, etc. (I tried to alter the template myself, but upon "previewing" my various attempts, I was clearly just botching the code, so I didn't hit Save page.) -- Thekohser 16:20, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

I added the header and adapted the template, nr. of pages can be given now as the 4th parameter.--Patrick (talk) 23:14, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
Just thought I'd drop by and let you know that I completed my work on the page. It's much more useful now, I feel. -- Thekohser 18:19, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

[edit] User rights

Please sign see here if you wish to continue holding user rights here. Thanks, Majorly talk 15:12, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Nested tables problem

Well, I wrote you this because I thought that maybe you can help me with this (due your page creation long ago), if not, please lead me to someone who can (if you know, and you are able to). The problem is that nested collapsible tables (two or more) have an error while collapsing/uncollapsing (something that doesn´t happen on the english wikipedia). With the parameter "class="collapsible collapsed"", the content of a table becomes hidden, but if one of the cells of that table contains another table with the same parameter (a second table also with hidden content), the hidden secondary content is forcefully shown, even when the collapse caption indicates it as hidden. Here´s an example (note that a table within another generates this error; the sub-hidden content is no longer hidden and you have to click several times on the collapse caption to manually collapse it!):

I wish to know if you can help me telling me how to fix this (maybe with some other parameter or implementing it to meta-wiki directly).
Thaks for your attention, and I hope you can answer me soon. - Damërung ...ÏìíÏ..._Ξ_ . --  09:46, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

You could ask on the talk page of w:MediaWiki:Common.js, that page contains code for this.--Patrick (talk) 10:46, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Notice of review of adminship

Hello,

In accordance with Meta:Administrators/Removal and because you have made fewer than ten logged actions over the past six months, your adminship is under review at Meta:Administrators/Removal/October 2009. If you would like to retain your adminship, please sign there before 2009-10-9. Kind regards, —Anonymous DissidentTalk 15:18, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

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