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How to participate if Discussions are being moved 3 Times

I know that it is important to Keep order about where what is discussed, but if a discussion is moved, couldn't a link to the new discussion as well as to the old one be mandatory? In this way if a discussion is moved twice it would be possible to provide a link to the current discussion as well as to the original. Also if the discussion is finally resolved you could find all the old ones and mark them as resolved too. Why this is here? Because my original suggestion was moved 3 times. ~~+~

Click Through Picture

Hi, I dont know a lot about Wiki-Style, but I know how to upload a picture. But I need to link a website to the picture, but I have no idea how to do so. So when I Click a picture, I want to direct it to another website. My 2nd question is how to link a picture to another Wiki-Page, is that possible?

Thanks in advance. Charrel

can't find create page link in my wiki

I was having problem creating new page in my wiki and I installed reinstalled three times to get same error back. According to this tutorail here "http://os.cqu.edu.au/courses/guides/gsmw/" a link to ' create page' should come up when we search a non existent topic, but in my case only 'help' shows up. not only that when i click on some of the links, it takes me no where. I am not sure where I went wrong. This is another way of creating new page "http://www.example.net/index.php/ARTICLE" where article is topic of my new page but

I do this.... it shows blank. SO I am assuming I ve gone wrong in config but  I couldn't locate this.

ANy help or suggesstions will be appreciated

Thanks Tash

Fatal error

I am installing wiki1.16 on my freehostia webpage. I got everything ok, until the installation guide showed: Fatal error: Class 'StubContLang' not found in /home/www/fdsafdsa.freehostia.com/wiki/includes/Setup.php on line 306"

What should I do?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sodabottle (talk)

Odd numeric function problem

I'm writing or rewriting a article in Spanish, but I want to make automatic calculation in FUSION temperature for a periodic table elements, in other words only enter Kelvin temperature, and automatically calculate Celsius temperature. And I can if I was writing English Article, but Spanish use "," (comma) as decimal separator and not "."(period) like English spokers use to.
Thats work if P_fusion=500.5 (English form of numeration)
{{{P_fusión}}} [[kelvin|K]] ({{#expr:{{{P_fusión}}}-273.15}} [[Grado Celsius|ºC]])
But does not work if I use P_fusion=500,5 and the other number is 273,15
{{{P_fusión}}} [[kelvin|K]] ({{#expr:{{{P_fusión}}}-273,15}} [[Grado Celsius|ºC]])

Te problem is that I trying to rewrite a Template, and every article that use the spanish notation for decimal numbers will have problems. And it's common that every number write almost in spanish use "," as decimal separator. And I think that not english languages use "," as decimal separator, because we use SI as Metric System Logo. Ali—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 2a03:2880:2110:dff7:face:b00c:0:1 (talk)

ImageMap Problem with Text afterwards

Hello,

we am currently working on a MediaWiki about the event-driven process chain standardisation called www.epc-standard.org At the moment we are looking for extensions that may help the user experience. For that reason we want to use the ImageMap feature.

We are running the following versions: MediaWiki: 1.27.0-alpha PHP: 7.0.12 (cgi-fcgi) MariaDB: 5.5.53-MariaDB-1~wheezy ICU: 4.8.1.1

So the actual problem is that after I create a ImageMap, the followling text till the next footnote will be a link to the ImageMap Image. You can the this at the main page (https://www.epc-standard.org/collaborate/Towards_EPC_standardization) in the first Topic.

The code around the ImageMap:

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The event-driven process chain (EPC)...

I have no clue, what problem it may be and I would be happy if somebody has an idea.

Best greetings, Steffen

How to start this game?

Bold textHey tropicalkitty, that wasn't what i would call helpfull at all. how about an answer instead?

QUESTIONS TO ALL FORUMS OF HELP

I AM NOT COMPUTER SAVVY.

PLEASE, WHAT SHOULD I DOWNLOAD TO PROTECT MY EMAILS, MY FACEBOOK, MY INTERNAL 'C', OR 'ANYTHING'....TO PROTECT ANYONE FROM GETTING INSIDE OF MY COMPUTER?

ANY AND ALL HELP APPRECIATED.

THANKS SO 'MUCH'.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by [[User:{{{1}}}|{{{1}}}]] ([[User talk:{{{1}}}|talk]])

Some one can hlp me pls stop all the things

This is my use of this information, you are careful of this person. It is because of your greedy, got me now to the packaging are given to people covered mouth. You say nothing is a police officer? I got it for you, what am I afraid? I just wanted a new life. You use my trust in you, in my mobile phone download Google Tos software to put adwords to make money! You are really poisonous! When I discovered it, I asked you to come out to understand that you brought the Indians out and then hacked my Facebook page, pulled my family into the group, bankrupted my integrity, and when I was not sure what happened , You've been a pros partner with google, help me set up unlimited investment, and you will be able to make money. You want me to go bankrupt, opportunity I gave. Can not stand it anymore...

Unity around the country

Wiki shows us unity ,we all in the same media zone ,but coming from different places around the world and that's a good thing .We get to know other people ,have friends which can help you when you visit another country ,because some of us like to tour around the country and maybe one day the dream will come true to become an actor ,network administrator that's it guys Love you all god bless you all amen

Display event information in local time zone

Is it possible to get Meta to display the time for Events in my local time zone instead of UTC? Example: WikiClubWest/2018 Digitization workshop

In my Preferences, Appearance I have selected the correct time zone. In my Wikipedia Preferences, Gadgets there is an option to "Change UTC-based times ... to local time", but that option doesn't appear under Meta, Preferences, Gadgets. Mitch Ames (talk) 08:44, 21 April 2018 (UTC)

A "Children's Wikipedia"?

I had this idea suddenly pop into my head. Would it be possible to create a version of Wikipedia targeted mainly at children? It could have very simple text, more images, and focus on subjects relevant to kids. And how would I go about setting it up? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rilancia (talk)

This is a perennial proposal. Ruslik (talk) 19:36, 15 June 2018 (UTC)

WIKT: "Japanese terms spelled with" category sorting issue

On Wiktionary, I've encountered a kana-sorting problem many times before in categories for Japanese terms by kanji (as in "Category:Japanese terms spelled with [kanji]," or "Category:Japanese terms spelled with [kanji] read as [kana]"). The problem is that a term newly added to the category will be sorted under its first kanji, rather than under its first kana. For example, in my adding 聖句 to Category:Japanese terms spelled with 句 read as く, "聖句" has become sorted under 聖, when it should be listed under せ.

Since it is a fairly prevalent problem from what I have seen, are there any steps I could take to resolve the issue? BlueCaper (talk) 07:38, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Deleting old version of file ?

Hello, I am a newbie in Wikimedia picture uploading, so here is the situation :

There was a file, of ~100kB, that needed an update > So I updated it, but the file I created was 15MB > It was way to big, so I "reverted" the file to its older version (and then, create an updated file of ~100kB and uploaded it, but this is not interesting here).

So in a list of old version of file that weight ~100kB, we have one of ~15MB that has never been actually used. This is a waste of space, and useless since it's actually here because of a technical user mistake. Should we delete this ? Is this possible ? How to do ?

Thanks Motiss (talk) 10:06, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Deleting them on MediaWiki interface actually don't 'delete' them from the storage, MediaWiki just marks the file as 'deleted' and hides this so only admins can see it. 15MB is quite a small size, so you can just leave it as is. — regards, Revi 10:30, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Spanish Wikipedia blackout

I've been trying to edit in the Spanish Wikipedia, and the constant redirects to "Wikipedia:Comunicado 4 julio 2018" are making work impossible. While I understand this is highly relevant for net neutrality regarding users in Europe, I am not located there and have no influence with any member of the European Parliament. The banner is now replacing every single page I request, and the result is that a detailed edit has had to be abandoned in the middle, and hours of work have been lost. I understand the wish to call attention to this important issue, but is it really necessary to trash good work in order to do so? Especially work done by someone who can't influence the outcome of that vote? Frenezulo (talk) 14:58, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Frenezulo Hello. Please disable Javascript for Wikipedia in your browser's settings and you should be able to edit. Regards, —MarcoAurelio (talk) 15:12, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for your help! I tried this on Firefox and Chrome. It lets me read, but doesn't allow editing (the tabs don't appear). Frenezulo (talk) 15:34, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

The good news is the edit was actually saved. Frenezulo (talk) 15:40, 4 July 2018 (UTC)